EVOLUTION THROUGH SEX
Sir,-A suggestion by your frequent correspondent G.H.D., at the end of his letter headed "Evolution Through Sex," deserves to be ignored, but is so typical of the kind of moral panic seen since the ‘inquiry into juvenile delinquency that it is time some kind of order was restored. He says: "May it not be that ene cause of juvenile delinquency is the purely naturalistic outlook on life
which many of our children derive from their contact with evolutionary bioiwgists?’"" Now I, for one, would be happy to learn that New Zealand children generally were being given the benefit of the knowledge of experts in all sciences -together with instruction in comparative religion instead of the narrower kind of indoctrination performed by one or two churches at the present time, I am confident that, far from tending to produce delinquency, the valuable information gained-plus the insight into scientific method, would broaden the interests and intellects of children and help to give them a healthier outlook on the functions of the human body. Let us not forget that a -Christian society produced the recent "wave" of so-called delinquency. It would be interesting to know if any comparable outbreak ever occurred among the Maoris. The cruelty, unhealthiness and stupidity of many of the sexual taboos and moral restraints imposed by Christianity themselves condition the types and number of social deviants.
O.
S.
(Titirangi)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 5
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233EVOLUTION THROUGH SEX New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 5
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