The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
From Havelock Ellis
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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