H.W.L.

SANE SEX LIFE AND SANE SEX LIVING

I

AN EXPLANATORY INTRODUCTION

A pious Christian once said to me:  “I find it hard to reconcile sex with the purity of Providence.”  He never could understand why God arranged for sex anyway.  Why something else might not have been done.  Why children might not have come in some other fashion.

Look at the harm sex has involved.  Most all the deviltry of history that was not done for money was done for sex.  And even the deviltry that was done and is done for money had, and has sex back of it.  Take sex out of man and you have something worth while.  God must have been short of expedients when God, in sex, conceived sex.  It certainly looks as if the Divine fell down this time.  As if infinity was at the end of its tether.  As if the adept creator for once was caught napping, or for once botched a job.

So we had my pious friend.  And we had medievalism.  And we had the ascetics.  And heaven knows what else.  Too much sex some places.  Too little sex other places.  Some people swearing on and some swearing off.  The prostitute giving away that which was meant to be kept.  The virgin keeping that which was meant to be given away.  A force contending with a force.  Drawing in opposite directions when they should be pulling together.  Through it all, motherhood misunderstood.  And fatherhood misunderstood.  The body cheapened to the soul.  And the soul cheapened to the body.  Every child being a slap in the face of virtue.

Have you ever tried to see what this came from and goes to?  This philosophy of vulgar denial?  This philosophy of wallowing surrender?

The Christian stream has been polluted.  It has gone dirty in the age of hush.  We are supposed to keep our mouths shut.  We are not to give sex away.  We breed youngsters in fatal ignorance.  They are always asking questions.  But we don’t answer their questions.  The church don’t answer them.  Nor the state.  Nor the schools.  Not even mothers and fathers.  Nobody who could answer answers them.  But they don’t go unanswered.  They get answered.  And they get answered wrong instead of right.  They get answered, smutched instead of washed.  They get answered blasphemously instead of reverently.  They get answered so that the body is suspected instead of being trusted.

A boy who knows nothing asks a boy who knows nothing.  A girl who knows nothing asks a girl who knows nothing.  From nothing nothing comes.  Men who have been such boys know nothing.  Women who have been such girls know nothing.  From nothing nothing comes.  They have become familiar with sex circumstances.  They are parents.  They have done the best they knew how.  But they never learned sex.  They never realized its fundamentals.  They never went back to, or forward to it.  They were lost in