The necessity of there being established a balance between an unlimited self-expression and a rigid self-repression is clearly indicated also, and the importance of self-control is not ignored here as it has been elsewhere, unfortunately, both as regards the individual's physical health and the weal of the community at large; for self-control is a vital essential in the health of a man just as it is a vital necessity for the continuance of a nation. The following pages contain information and suggestions which should tend to the formation of a wiser and more hopeful outlook over the problems of sexual morality, and should therefore receive the careful consideration of all who have the interests of humanity at heart. F. W. W. GRIFFIN M.A., M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. _March 1922_ Contents CHAPTER PAGE 1. APOLOGIA 7 2. OFFICIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS SEX 13 3. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PURITY 23 4. CELIBACY 31 5. NON-CELIBACY 36 6. DIVORCE 45 7. EUGENICS AND PROSTITUTION 52 8. THE HOMOSEXUAL TEMPERAMENT 60 9. THE SEXLESS CLASS 76 10. SUPER-ABNORMALITIES 78 11. SEX EDUCATION 87 An Outline of Sexual Morality Chapter 1: Apologia I have been impelled to attempt this definition of sexual morality for at least three reasons. The first is that, at this moment particularly, science is emphasizing the large responsibility which sex assumes in our lives. We may think that Freud has overestimated this influence; nevertheless, all psycho-analysis tends to show that the sex-force cannot be wholly repressed and that even with the most passionless individuals sex is the unconscious motive in a large percentage of their activities. It is well therefore that we should have as clear a conception as possible as to the moral rights of this enormous factor in our lives. Secondly, a handbook of this kind is perhaps the most convenient medium for defining my personal attitude towards this problem. My own views are, of course, unimportant, but it so happens that I have often been asked, in private conversations, to define them. Now to summarize them to the extent which a casual conversation must almost necessarily entail, is difficult; and often, I suspect, I may have given a wholly wrong impression. I am anxious to set that right.