SEX KNOWLEDGE
Sir-As a woman of nearly 60 with 32 years of married happiness behind me, I feel I cannot allow J. Durning’s prudery to‘ pass unchallenged. I have been greatly disturbed to find among our young people a’ high percentage of couples, admirably suited in temperament, either seeking divorce after three Lp I LOM Pe LOS a A PLL DA ORI
QPBPPBPPP DP PRP PPP DPD DO or four years of married life, or living together completely at variance with each other. This state of affairs creates a home environment guaranteed to have a tragic effect on the characters of their children. Since no child can grow up a normal human being in an unhappy home, it is the children who are the greatest sufferers, Since I know that my own happiness was built on the sure foundation of a sensible knowledge of the functions of sex, I feel it my duty to applaud G. W. Parkyn’s approval of Margaret Mead’s book. How much better than the hush-hush attitude of so-called civilised people, who leave the most sacred and beautiful experience in life to chance-simply because "it is the custom." Or do they merely lack the moral courage to even try to enlighten
their children?-
AN ENLIGHTENED
WIFE
(Wellington),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 5
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210SEX KNOWLEDGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 5
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