Show KATHLEEN NORRIS HORRIS no chastity Is not outmoded EDITORS NOTE because of 01 av an unusual number ol of requests re irom from readers tati sah column by kathleen torris if ht being reprinted this week T IS distinctly disheartening ito RIS 0 find prominently featured in a magazine an article by no less an authority than doctor david mace of drew university provocatively entitled Is chastity outmoded disheartening because it seems to me dishonest to so title an article that after flirting about abou 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 be lifted to a high le level vel must wait for mat maturity u rity and marriage and he sublimated into true mated love the highest happiness man and woman can know Ischo schools oli of 0 thought weve been patiently preaching that we mot mothers heri teachers guides so BO that in the end we have no quartel with doctor mace but we certainly can feel small respect for the 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 of thought on the subject lie he eliminates those of us whose religious scruples keep us pure he also eliminates from his abaly for despite the high moral tone mob degradation of 01 the women i he be develops it Is an analysts analysis those who consider chastity highly inconvenient and whose policy Is to do as they like this leaves he says the ex large third group that lies between those nose who try to add up the arguments on both sides doctor mace states that the traditional dit ional lonal viewpoint Is that unchaste ty is undesirable because of its ita effects on the individual in terms of disease unwanted children and the damage it may do to the community making family life and society unstable medical science on the othor other hand he admits there is the argument that to 3 suppress u p tex sex desires makes people frustrated and bottled up to express then leads to growth and enlargement of the personality later while in the past full sexual freedom was impractical because of the danger of veneral disease and illegitimacy medical science has ROW now changed all that any intelligent youth says the doctor in the next sentence will tell you that the doctors have got V D licked and later again the man at least can take measures to protect himself for the woman safeguards are not so easily available but if protective measures fall both social diseases can be cured he observes immunity however cannot be guaranteed the rho boy and girl who come together sexually must face the possibility of pregnancy if it occurs says fays the doctor ungrammatically mati cally they have three alternatives a forced marriage an abortion or an illegitimate child ile he admits these are negative arguments for chastity but he feels that the future may see gee them weakened or even entirely neutralized someday he be says vener al disease may bo be stamped out and a completely reliable contraceptive put at disposal will chastity be outmoded then doctor mace goes on to a critical question at what point Is it appropriate for a young couple to have sexual relations when their intention Is to marry As soon as they know they are serious in the intention to marry or no not t until they actually are wed on this point says the doctor there Is a strong difference of opinion how can they know that they are sexually well matched unless they test out this side of their relationship lation ship in advance and anxious to be fair to this argument he cites the case of a man who could not decide between two women whom he ha regarded as possible wives it may be satisfactory to the doctor tor for them to test for compatibility nothing Is said of the do degradation of the women who submitted to his process of the insolvent involve nt stupidity of the man experimenter experiment er or er of the insult offered all decent women who read this article but in the tha end after some con fugedi floundering doctor mace comes gravely and decorously to the conclusion that the whole trend of expert opinion today Js is toward regarding sexual harmony as a funi function tion of good personal ln III ter action 11 this is a scientific way of saying they are humans |