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HOW LIFE BEGINS: By Milton R. Kent. A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington. HIS is a courageous attempt to speak plainly about a subject that most of us are not clean enough to discuss at all. For it is not because sex is dirty that we remain silent about it; it is because we are dirty — so dirty that we can no longer talk about it simply. Milton Kent can. Her (surely not his?) science is shaky, even her syntax insecure, but only grown-ups will detect those things; and she does not address herself to grown-ups. She speaks to children — any children old enough to read and young enough to have.a natural and not a corrupted curiosity. She will shock the parents of many of them; but it is very unlikely that she will shock, worry, or mislead a single wholesome child, and if she does, it will be because evil was done there before she arrived.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 218, 27 August 1943, Page 10
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161NOT FOR GROWN-UPS New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 218, 27 August 1943, Page 10
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