SEX IMPULSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 5

SEX IMPULSE

OUTSPOKEN ARCHBISHOP RUINATION OF YOUNG LONDON, April 5. “We want to liberate sex impulse, which is part of humanity’s heritage, from the impression that it must always be surrounded by negative warnings and restraints, and place it in its rightful place among the great creative, formative things of every boy and girl,” said the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Lang, speaking in aid of the London Diocesan Council’s rescue work.

Dr. Lang approved of the greater freedom of discussion ou sex questions since lii.s chairmanship of the council in 1902, saying he would rather have all the risks which may result from ireo discussion, than the greater risks due to the former conspiracy of silence and taboo. He welcomed the new freedom and frankness regarding the relationships ol young people, but emphasised that, dangers also lurked therein, owing to modern devices and discoveries, which had brought in an insidious corrupting poison, whereby it was perfectly possible to enjoy over-indulgence in impulses and avoid all consequences which formerly were a deterrent. “Anyone knowing the life of the countryside in the neighborhood of ' our towns,” said the Archbishop, “realises that the natural, healthy intercourse of sexes is being ruined and blasted by these methods. Multitudes of the young of both sexes, who outwardly are perfectly respectable, are now indulging in a manner which would have shamed the conscience of mop in the past, and would have brought girls to pitiful dis astrous consequences. “Wo want/’ lie said, “to put before tiro youth of the country the high true ideal, and showing the means whereby the ideal is reachable. Typists especial ly, who sit nil day long at monotonously irritating machines, wanted a healthy, natural recreation, but the means are greatly lacking.” ’