Contraceptives on the campus

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 12

Contraceptives on the campus

Sir,—Congratulations to our student executive on their latest advocacy of further sexual degeneracy! They really must be a very (one dares not say promiscuous) sexually liberated group. Their views on.sexual morality are very exciting and avant-garde, but they are nonetheless their own personal views and not, as they would have us believe, those of the majority of the students. Many of us still see th j sexual act as an act of love to be performed by two who have pledged their lives and their love exclusively in marriage— that institution which some probably write off as a "piece of paper.” We will certainly oppose any attempts to install contraceptive vending machines in the Union Buildings which our fees help to build and maintain. It is the executive’s morality not ours. They can defend it, publicise it, advise it. They can have it!—Yours etc., P. J. DUNN. August 4, 1971.

Sir, —lf students must have sex, then they must have contraceptives. Dr Ussher’s apt expression, though not intended that way, went straight to the point. By the time these students decide to get married, “commonplace” is exactly what their sex life will have become. As an “oldie,” I belong to a generation who invented “free love,” and the girls would do well to remember that, in spite of Women’s Lib, for a woman, there is no such thing as freedom, especially in sex.— Yours, etc., LIBERAL GRANDMA. August 4, 1971.