ABSTRACT
Traditional Christian sex-morality goes a great deal farther in its restrictions than is required for the purpose of safeguarding the sanctity of monogamic marriage. The tabus of sex-morality, as established in Western tradition, fall into two distinct classes. There are restrictions on actual sexual conduct, the prohibition of adultery, of fornication. There are a host of restrictions and prohibitions which have no direct reference to actual sexual conduct, but are said to refer to the maintenance of decency and purity. A form of the safeguarding of public morals which has attracted of late a good deal of attention is the right claimed by established authorities to suppress literature in the interests of public morals. The right to freedom of expression in literature is one of the most important foundations of modern culture, and any interference with that right is one of the gravest offences of which despotism can be guilty.
