‘Humanity’ in sex
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) I LONDON, Dec. 7. i The Archbishop of Canter-! bury (Dr Michael Ramsey)! has welcomed the greater! openness about sex, but! warns against its commercial! exploitation. The sexual revolution, said the 68-year-old Anglican Primate, was one of the terrible) strains often faced by a! family. Very unsuitable housing was too often one of the other such strains, as was the difficulty of getting any housing at all.
“If we are wise we shall not concentrate on denunciations of evil in the sexual sphere but shall try to cope with the sickness in society which leads to such evil,” said Dr Ramsey in a lecture on “The Family Today.” He continued: “I hope we welcome the greater openness about sex, as I am sure the old puritanical idea that sex should always be hushed up was unwholesome and did harm. “We must avoid a kind of backlash towards puritanism, but sex is the bond of a union between two persons in their totality as persons; that is its true meaning.
“And today we have to witness against all those influences which separate sex from human personality and treat it as an excitement on a sub-human plane. The commercial exploitation of sex is horrible.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33096, 11 December 1972, Page 7
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