How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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would be far cheaper and healthier than building institu¬ tions for prostitutes and their hangers-on. Prostitution would be impossible in a civilization where women were considered the equals of men. Minor Conversions of Sex The cheap dance halls, which are no more than legalized opportunities for mutual masturbation (again without risk), the publication of pornographic literature and pictures, and their patronage, are lesser side-shows about the tremendous arena of sex. Smutty stories, so dearly beloved by the hesitant male, are a further evidence of an attempt to solve the sexual problem by the substitu¬ tion of an artificially prepared superiority for the responsi¬ bility of mature sexual relations. Impotence and frigidity (commonly believed to be physiological aberrations like homosexuality) are forms of “ organ jargon ”, in the realm of sex. Impotence, like frigidity, answers a loud “ No ! ” to sexual responsi¬ bility, while the fiction of good intentions is maintained. They fall naturally into the category of the sexual neuroses. Romanticism is the most hallowed of all the sexual side-shows. The search for the “ true ” mate, the cult of the “ right ” man or woman (who usually does not come along) is another way of negating the fundamental premise of sexual cooperation. Romanticism is the sexual life of the adolescent. When practised by mature men and women it represents a narrow horizon, a high degree of subjectivity, a desire to be pampered, to be treated as a prince or a princess. It is a sign of the inferiority complex in the sexual field. There are men and women who are always unlucky in love. They are usually the men and women who do not want to* love at all, and unconsciously stack the cards against themselves, by falling in love with the wrong mate. Mature men and women make mistakes in love, and tragedies sometimes grow out of these mistakes ; but