Population
Sir,—“Why Not Really Help?” offers contentions which, while widely held, are saddening in their ignorance. There is no evidence to support the claim that sexual activity without reproduction is emotionally disturbing; indeed, the evidence available suggests the contrary. Your correspondent lists several desires that we “control,” implying that the process is simply self-acquired. Of these, eating is controlled by the hypothalamus, and all the others are learned activities, and therefore subject to cultural variation. Chastity as an absolute value is out of date for the very reason that the attitudes which were its corollary were a very much greater cause of emotional maladjustment than the alleged indifference to not producing a child with each act of coition —Yours, etc., HUMANIST. April 22, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 16
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