ABSTRACT
The ethical relationships of the sexual life are thorny and difficult questions. Before attempting to summarise the general lines of discussion of these borderland questions, the chapter ventures upon two concise affirmations to serve as a basis for the whole argument. First affirmation is that no one can possibly fail to admit the universality of the phenomenon of sex. Second affirmation is equally self—evident, and is based upon wide general experience alike practical and scientific. The safest foundation for the treatment of sexual matters is to be found in a natural way of thinking and feeling. In a nation which regards the sexual impulse as natural and truly human there will be less tendency to the misuse of that impulse. The war against pornography will not be decided by the prosecution of the pornographers, but by a cleansing, and above all, if the expression be permitted, by a sincerification of human sexual relationships.
