Judge — June 16, 1923 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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ex is something that children never discuss in the preseace of their elders. It was invented traveling man, and srsons over ninety-seven is of absolutely no interest to It is Legislature, and is revived when th bolished every year or so by the Kansas ‘ollies play ‘Topeka. Sex is a mystery. ntists have been trying for centuries to solve the mystery, and every so often one of them is divorced by his wife just as he thinks he has succeeded. The best brains of all times have been keenly interested in the matter, but if anyone ever finds the answer to the puzzle he will be lynched by an angered populace. It is not a subject for parlor discussion. and one of the most poisonous influences of modern Everything its place, times is the manner in which sex is freely discussed in the draw- ing-room. It sounds just like boasting. of novels have been written on the subject of t is more in [[tt10Ns sex, which simply goes to prove that Sex is at the bottom o: i esting than fiction, | wars, all great reforms, and numerous week-end parties. The morality of a race may be determined by its attitude toward sex. If they laugh at it, they're immoral. If they ery about it, they're virtuous. The Bible tells us that woman was made the enemy of man. It also tells us to love our enemies and this is frequently done. No man, however, should attempt to love all his enemies. rly all religions contain an element of sex. So does That is why both have their followers. all vice. X was a secret in America until the advent of the bic; The divided skirt and the bloomer made the secret impos- Young people simply had to be told, sible to keep any longer. and everybody hated to tell them except preachers, newspapers, But the young people don’t need to According to what we hear, teachers and old maids. be told by the oldsters any longer. they tell each other, no We worry more newspapers filled with sex scandal that is whispered around has to do with s like salt: a dash of it adds zest to anything. There are many laws regarding sex, but the most important Discretion is the better part of virtue. News- lays. ut sex than about anything else. The Practically every x. stories. is to be discreet. ling about sex. I confess that I become tired rea papers, magazines, plays, books and Sunday sermons shriek by Arthur Somers Roche It becomes work reading all these things, and all a dull boy. sex at me. work and no play makes Jack HENCE has been trying for years to find a substitute for sex nade all the time, but the although many husbands with Experiments are beit public is strangely uninterested black-haired wives The investigation of the p! ye yellow-haired secretaries at © just as successful in invariably eng ‘nomenon of sex is one tha Freshmen at college tracts all classes. th ir research work as bald-headed brokers, x is unquestionably an objectionable thins Otherwise, it's perfectly all if you happen ght to get caught by your wife. It is one of the necessary evils and must be endured. Marriag of the results of sex. In heaven, we are promised, there shall be no marri But you don’t have to One may observe the same State of affairs in > is one go that far. Greenwich Village. The present rotten immorality of society is attributed, by students of social conditions, to the predominance of sex in our affairs. We have accorded sex a place out of all proportion to its real importance. In fact we have raised it from a pastime to a profession. It is time that we put sex back in its place. I don’t hear to be its lone defender. keeps one out of the open air. good word spoken of sex anywhere. [seem For Pm not a bit opposed to it. It : question as to which sex is the more important can never It is also impossible to state which is But it is useless to argue as to attain or morally Man is suy which sh superior mentally physical merits. that full equality equal. She is not his physical equal because she cannot do i much work. She must take months and years out of the ficld of competitive endeavor for the bringing forth of children. It takes time and trouble to be a mother. Until babies are manufactured synthetically in a laboratory women will be under the disability of maternity. Of cours: that day may come. And when it does come, there will be no more sermons on the evils of sex, no more novels written about it, no more triangle plays. For you simply couldn't get an audience to snicker about a test tube and some litmus paper. There'd be no humor in those things. And that brings me to a momentous discovery: if you took the fun out of sex, there wouldn’t be any sex. Perhaps the only trouble with the sermonizers is that they lack humor. rior and woman ¢: desires until she is m 1 ne ns physi¢ comicbooks.com