Sex and Common-Sense

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sex And Common-Sense, by A. Maude RoydenThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Sex And Common-SenseAuthor: A. Maude RoydenRelease Date: April 8, 2004 [EBook #11965]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEX AND COMMON-SENSE ***Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, Bonnie Rubio, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.SEX AND COMMON-SENSEBYA. MAUDE ROYDEN ASSISTANT PREACHER AT THE CITY TEMPLE, LONDON 1918-1920To MY FRIENDS A.J.S. AND W.H.S.PREFACE TO AMERICAN EDITIONTHE NOBILITY OF THE SEX PROBLEMOf all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that ofthe relations of the sexes. This is natural. It touches us all and we have made rather a mess of it! We want to know why,and we want to do better. We resent being the sport of circumstance and perhaps we are beginning to understand thatthis instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only forfurtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed "theexpense of spirit in a waste of shame."It is not the abnormal or the bizarre that interests most ...