Naturally, a part of the education in sexuality should include a knowledge of the diseases of sex. This, in itself, especially among the young, tends to curb the impulse toward promiscuity, or at least to limit it to “petting” rather than to full sexuality. Nevertheless, we must admit the fact that there is a growing promiscuity, along with a change of attitude on the whole sexual problem. Whether this is a passing phase, and due to the revolt of youth against the old puritanism, or whether the future will look upon sexuality with new eyes, we cannot really know. However, those who fear that the institution of marriage will soon totter on its foundation have not, I think, a very deep insight into man. Human nature has much in it of restlessness, of desire for change, and for experiment, but as a rule it has more on the side of inertia, with a deep craving for security and comfort. Everything in man that loves to settle down and be secure makes also for monogamous marriage. That, for most people, is the only safe center in the world, the cave or retreat, the cavern of comfort. Beside that, of course, so long as children are born into the world, just so long will the run of people find much of the meaning of life in their children’s growth and success. This is the powerful force that keeps parents together, even where their tastes and their very natures are incompatible. LOVE The love of man for woman and woman for man, It is not often love.... When the married couple kiss do they drink the music of each other’s souls, Are they moved to unspeakable reverence and adoration, Would they renounce the world for the good of the beloved? No, kisses are become to them a routine and a duty: They find each other’s bodies at midnight as they find breakfast in the morning: And they fill the idle hours with games, shows, rides and liquor, All to escape from one another.... I have thoughts of a love that might be: Of a love that is the tender caress of forehead and cheeks with barely lingering hands: Of a love that opens the skies at midnight for silent flight, Flight far, with wings, in one another’s arms.... These lovers shall mean as much to each other as they mean to themselves: Their tenderness shall melt down irritations: Their passion shall surcharge tasks with meaning.... Not alone shall the man find God in himself, But in the beloved shall he find him, and in the sight of the beloved shall he adore him.... --_Songs for the New Age._ That still remains the ideal. To the couple who have found such meaning in each other, sexuality, as Havelock Ellis shows, becomes the art of love, and the union is one of joy and mystery, revealing the greatness of life.