ABSTRACT
Lord Russell’s views on sex and marriage were not greeted with any great applause by the multitude but his name alone brought vindictive and sudden fury when anyone suggested that his views on sex might be correct. In spite of the fact that in the second half of the twentieth century the mention of sex became a respectable subject, few philosophers dared to approach it. Somehow sex and sin are still synonymous terms, and until recent years, even scientific investigations into sex were considered wicked and viewed with suspicion and alarm. Lord Russell spent about one per cent of his time dealing with sex, but the general public thought it was 99 per cent.
