Abstract

Our Superstitious Sex Morals

This article presents information on the book "Sin and Sex,' by Robert Briffault. Despite the agitated antics of the flapper, the rise of nudity groups, and the passionate popularity of Sigmund Freud and Havelock Ellis, one have not yet escaped the sexophobic philosophy of the Victorian ancestors. Robert Briffault's book "Sin and Sex" attacks all these sexophobic attitudes and the type of civilization that has created and continued them. It is far-and-away superior to the many volumes which have been written on this theme in recent years. While its approach is fundamentally sociological, it does not avoid the psychological implications of the problem. Briffault begins his analysis by tracing the origins of sexophobia to Christianity, and holds that it is only in Christian countries that morality has become primarily associated with sex.