Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS HORRIS no chastity Is not obsolete IT IS distinctly disheartening to find prominently featured in a current magazine an article by no less an authority than doctor david mace of drew university provocatively entitled la Is chastity outmoded disheartening because it seems seams to mo me dishonest to so title an article that after flirting about suggestively ge among alternatives to adolescent and youthful chastity doctor mace comes down to the old code comes down rigidly and idealistically sex he decides must bo be lifted to a high level must wait tor for maturity and marriage end and be sublimated into true mated love the highest happiness man and as d woman can know weve been patiently preaching that we mothers teachers guides so BO that in the alia end we wa have hava no quarrel with doctor mace but we cert certainly ainaly can feel small respect tor for the mancho man who indicates in his title that chastity is debatable and is careful to remind young and impressionable able readers that there are several schools ot of thought on the subject religious scruples urles he eliminates those of us whose religious scruples kee keep p us pure tie he also eliminates from his analysis for despite the high moral tone he develops it is ia an analysis those who consider chastity highly inconvenient and whose policy is to do as they like tills this leaves he says sayi the ex themely large third group that lies between those who try to add up the arguments on both sides doctor mace sto states tes that the traditional dit ional viewpoint is that is undesirable because of its effects on the individual in terms of k I 1 h 10 L 4 ir religious scruples keep kes us mi puro disease unwanted children and the damage it may do to tile the community making family ufa life and society unstable on the other hand he admits the there re is the argument that sto to suppress sex desires makes people frustrated and bottled battled up to express them leads to growth and enlargement of the personality later chile while in the past full sexual freedom was impractical because of the tha danger of venereal disease and illegitimacy medical science has now changed all that any intelligent youth says the doctor in tho the next sentence will tell you that the doctors docton hava got V D licked and later again the min man at least can take measures to protect himself for the woman safeguards are not so east ly olval available lable but if protective measures fall both social diseases can be cured he observes choice of 0 three immunity however cannot to be guaranteed the me boy and girl who come together sexually must face the possibility of pregnancy if it occurs says the I 1 doctor 1 ungrammatically mati cally they have three alte alternatives r a forced marriage an abortion ab orlton or an illegitimate child he ha admits these era are negative arguments for chastity but he be feels that the future may see them weakened or even entirely neutralized someday mcday So he says venereal disease may be stamped out and a completely reliable contraceptive put lutat at disposal will chastity be outmoded then doctor mace goes on to a critical question at what point Is it appropriate tor for a young couple to have sexual relations when their intention is to marry As ai soon us as they know they are serious in the intention to marry or not until unta they actually are wed on this point says the doctor there is a strong difference of opinion I how can they know that they are sexually well matched unless they test out Us this side of their re ra 1 in advance 1 and anxious to be fair to this argument he cites the case ot of a man who wha could not decide between two wom women en whom he ha regarded as possible wives it may be ba satisfactory 1 to the doctor for them to test for compatibility nothing Is said of the degradation of the women who submitted to his process of the insolent stupidity of the man experimenter or of the insult offered all decent women women who read this article but in the end after some confused floundering doctor mace maca comes gravely and decorously to the conclusion that the whole trend of expert opinion today Is toward regarding sexual harmony as a function of good personal interaction ter action this la Is a scientific way of saying they th eyare are humans he alsoe says poetically that so given lova arid and sexual normality sex Is the servant of love and must be ba made to do its bidding it that means anything the article ends upon anide an idealistic alls note what we need says say fil doctor mace Is a new ideal of 61 chastity as a discipline gladly accepted so that human love can be kept warm and tender and ansul i lied this Is a hew ideal to youdon you doctor I 1 but you do a great ma mothers and fathers and teachers injustice it you cill call it new |