Peace be to you.

The two words most often used and abused in our modern world

are the words freedom and sex.

Freedom is often used to signify the absence of law,

and sex is often used to signify the absence of restraint.

It is this subject that we are interested in today in the general discussion of matrimony.

We will commence with three very popular expressions about the subject of sex and then apply some thinking to these expressions.

The first popular expression is, sex is not anything to be ashamed of.

Now that can be understood in a right and wrong sense.

It is right if it means that the human race reproduces itself in a certain way that gives pleasure.

But that expression can be wrong.

If it means, carnal license,

the mess that sex instinct has got us in today? Uncontrolled use of pornographic literature?

If these things are nothing to be ashamed of, then the expression is wrong.

Let us take a second one.

We must be self-expressive.

That is right if it means that we are to perfect our personality.

It is wrong, however, if self-expression means to allow the sex instinct every satisfaction

and at all times and under all circumstances.

We must analyze the full significance of the term self-expression.

A locomotive on a track following the road that was laid out by an engineer is self-expressive

if it stays on the tracks.

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