LEARNING ABOUT SEX
Sir-I shall be surprised if many Christians echo your favourable judgment concerning the recently-published pamphlets on sex education. The pamphlets were no doubt written with the intention of helping to stem the rising tide of immorality, but if anyone thinks they are likely to make any worthwhile contribution to thi- cause, he is badly mistaken. The pamphlets present our code of sexual morality as something purely relative, and in urging that it be observed they appeal almost exclusively to hedonistic and utilitarian motives. Moreover, some of the things they recommend are contrary not only to Christian morals, but even to the is.tinctive sense of shame. The approach to the problem of sex is amoral and non-religious. There is indeed one reference to God as the Creator of sex. but there is nowhere any suggestion that the laws which regulate behaviour in the matter of sex are of Divine origin and have the sanction of Divine authority. Adolescents are urged to abstain from exploration of the physical side of sex because "it must in the long run prove unsatisfactory," and is "almost inevitably disappointing." Other practices which the Christian code condemns are portrayed as normal and’ in "themselves quite harmless, though excessive indulgence is deprecated because "it would interfere more than it need with the enjoyment of life." It is a pity to see public money spent on a project that will certainly.do more harm than good
G. H.
D.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 5
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243LEARNING ABOUT SEX New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 5
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