The Road Back
HE pretensions of the Kinsey researchers, Havelock Ellis and similar "revaluers"’ of family and sex life made me approach Allan Nixon’s 1YC series on The Family and Society with caution and scepticism. Such discussions so often make "freedom" ‘and "rational relationships" the basis of a newer, more sterile orthodoxy (the epithet is calculated) that I expected a rehash of the familiar arguments against Christian conceptions. However, through a careful analysis of statistics and a detailed survey of the changing patterns of family life today, Mr. Nixon came to the conclusions which justified the traditional view. Despite his attempt at impartiality, it became clear, after the first three talks, that Mr. Nixon had found that evidence similar to that exploited by the "freelovers" could be used to establish a rational case for the control of the sexual impulse and the integrity of the family.. To me, this series appeared a healthy approach to a question in which a rationalisation of aberrations has often been advanced as the "enlightened" view of sex and marriage. It also illustrated the philosophy of a friend of mine, "If you stay in the conservative groove, and ignore fashions, you eventually find yourself in the avant-garde of the new enlightenment."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 10
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206The Road Back New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 10
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