"To preach a negative and colorless ideal of chastity to young men and women is to neglect the primary duty of awakening their intelligence, their responsibility, their self-reliance and independence.”
Sounds like a very modern attitude, doesn't it?
Sexual experimentation promised as a basic step to maturity?
Indeed, the above quotation suggests that promoting promiscuity is a "primary duty" of the governing powers. And, judging from what modern Americans watch on their televisions, hear on their iPods, see in the Victoria's Secret store windows in the mall, and are taught in public schools, the powers that be are enthusiastically following the course.
But the quotation actually comes a bit earlier than when you might guess. Because it wasn't first stated by Madonna or Cher, not by Hugh Hefner or Alfred Kinsey, not even by Helen Gurley Brown or... Nancy Pelosi.
No, this "seed statement" which has borne so much sour fruit in today's culture was published in a 1922 book entitled, The Pivot of Civilization by...
...the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.
