, directed, even sublimated, but to ignore, to neglect, to refuse
to recognize this great elemental force is nothing less than foolhardy.

Out of the unchallenged policies of continence, abstinence, "chastity"
and "purity," we have reaped the harvests of prostitution, venereal
scourges and innumerable other evils. Traditional moralists have failed
to recognize that chastity and purity must be the outward symptoms of
awakened intelligence, of satisfied desires, and fulfilled love. They
cannot be taught by "sex education." They cannot be imposed from
without by a denial of the might and the right of sexual expression.
Nevertheless, even in the contemporary teaching of sex hygiene and
social prophylaxis, nothing constructive is offered to young men and
young women who seek aid through the trying period of adolescence.

At the Lambeth Conference of 1920, the Bishops of the Church of England
stated in their report on their considerations of sexual morality:
"Men should regard all women as they do their mothers, sisters, and
daughters; and women should dress only in such a manner as to command
respect from every man. All right-minded persons should unite in the
suppression of pernicious literature, plays and films...." Could lack
of psychological insight and understanding be more completely indicated?
Yet, like these bishops, most of those who are undertaking the education
of the young are as ignorant themselves of psychology and physiology.
Indeed, those who are speaking belatedly of the need of "sexual hygiene"
seem to be unaware that they themselves are most in need of it. "We must
give up the futile attempt to keep young people in the dark," cries Rev.
James Marchant in "Birth-Rate and Empire," "and the assumption that they
are ignorant of notorious facts. We cannot, if we would, stop the spread
of sexual knowledge; and if we could do so, we would only make matters
infinitely worse. This is the second decade of the twentieth century,
not the early Victorian period.... It is no longer a question of knowing
or not knowing. We have to disabuse our middle-aged minds of that fond
delusion. Our young people know more than we did when we began our
married lives, and sometimes as much as we know, ourselves, even now. So
that we need not continue to shake our few remaining hairs in simulating
feelings of surprise or horror. It might have been better for us if we
had been more enlightened. And if our discussion of this problem is to