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Salient. Special. Vol. XVII, No. 17. September 1st, 1953

Tabu Complex

Tabu Complex.

Before we consider any remedy to this alleged sex-barbarism let us first try to define it as best we can in our definition several words come to mind, all springing from the Victorian "tabu complex." I am of course fully aware that this idea goes as far back as Eve's fig-leaf (original sin) and that our forefathers took their religion very seriously indeed and based their morality upon it So of course should we. However we have no grounds, those of us who endeavour to implement Christian ethics, to believe that puritanism is inherent in them. True Christianity in no way implies that sex is sinful, what It does claim is that it can be and very often is sinfully abused. Again what it does not teach is that sexual sin is worse than any other sort of sin What Christianity does regard as sexual sin we shall return to later. Suffice to say at this point that Society as a whole neither accepts Christian standards nor does it any longer hold to Victorian ethical standards. The result is the aforementioned hangover. We have no very specific ideals of moral conduct, but only a vague acceptance of a social pattern established in the 19th century, a pattern that is now an anachronism based on no convictions, religious or otherwise. Inherent in it is a state of complete moral anarchy. Our generation has no clearly defined direction and so its moral base is non-existent.