SEX APPEAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3075, 5 November 1929, Page 3

SEX APPEAL.

WISE WORDS FROM G.B.S. THE EFFECT OF CLOTHES. Mr George Bernard Shaw was one of the speakers at the Congress of the World League of Sexual Reform. In the course of his address he said that everybody was a sexual reformer. "The consequence is," he continued, "that in a world congress of sexual reform, all kinds of people would be brought together, and the Pope might find himself agreeing on nine points out of ten with Dr. Marie Stopes. "No matter what people's views are of sexual reform, it is desirable that they should seek expert advice instead of following the usual human practice of inventing their science and their facts. As a playwright, I am an expert on sex appeal, and an important function of the theatre in society is to educate people in matters of sex. "But no one calls in playwrights as experts in these matters. They choose priests instead, who are celibate, yet claim to be experts. If priests went behind the stage as experts they would be quickly told to % mind their own business.

"Two sets of people cultivate sex appeal .by two entirely different methods; one set to minimise sex appeal by the maximum of clothes, and the other to maximate sex appeal by the minimum of clothes. As an ex pert, I say that they are both hopelessly wrongv The only method ol creating sex appeal is by clothes. NINETEENTH CENTURY WOMAN. a The voluptuous woman of the nineteenth century was a masterpiece of sex appeal from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. Everything about her except her cheeks and nose were a guilty secret. "Modern women will probably be shocked by pictures of these Victorian ladies with every contour emphasised and upholstered. The Victorian age was an exceedingly immoral age, af-» fected with the disease of exhibitionism . "In England the unpopularity ot nudism, as practised in Austria and elsewhere, is because people still cling to sex appeal. Women have taken a very large step towards nudity and sex appeal has vanished. Bring back clothes, and it will be increased. "To tike mass of the people art and beauty are nothing but debauchery, «nd people misled by democracy have no idea of liberty. We must fight for class morality. There must be division of morality for distinct sections of the community. One section cannot impose its ideas upon,the nation."