The Range Of Variation In The Female

It Is Ordinarily Said That Criminal Law Is Designed To Protect Property And To Protect Persons, And If Society's Only Interest In Controlling Sex Behavior Were To Protect Persons, Then The Criminal Codes Concerned With Assault And Battery Should Provide Adequate Protection. The Fact That There Is A Body Of Sex Laws Which Is Apart From The Laws Protecting Persons Is Evidence Of Their Distinct Function, Namely That Of Protecting Custom.

Few Males Achieve Any Real Freedom In Their Sexual Relations Even With Their Wives. Few Males Realise How Badly Inhibited They Are On These Matters.

There Is A Tendency To Consider Anything In Human Behavior That Is Unusual, Not Well Known, Or Not Well Understood, As Neurotic, Psychopathic, Immature, Perverse, Or The Expression Of Some Other Sort Of Psychologic Disturbance.

The History Of Medicine Proves That In So Far As Man Seeks To Know Himself And Face His Whole Nature, He Has Become Free From Bewildered Fear, Despondent Shame, Or Arrant Hypocrisy. As Long As Sex Is Dealt With In The Current Confusion Of Ignorance And Sophistication, Denial And Indulgence, Suppression And Stimulation, Punishment And Exploitation, Secrecy And Display, It Will Be Associated With A Duplicity And Indecency That Lead Neither To Intellectual Honesty Nor Human Dignity.

If Biologists So Often Forget The Most Universal Of All Biologic Principles [variation], It Is Not Surprising That Men And Women In General Expect Their Fellows To Think And Behave According To The Pattern That May Fit The Law-maker, Or The Imaginary Ideals For Which The Legislation Was Fashioned, But Which Are Ill-shaped For All Real Individuals Who Try To Live Under Them.