Yes, You May Laugh!

Most of us will not admit that one con behave naturally (I acknowledge the ambiguity of this word) and yet keep within the bounds of propriety. Capping excesses are witness to this, for in these, propriety is most certainly abandoned, usually with the help of alcohol. Yet it is clear to some of us that this need not be so in the completely free atmosphere of Congress where there are literally no social or moral restrictions, the result is not moral collapse, but the exact reverse. I do not mean that peoples morals suddenly improve, but rather that honesty replaces social hypocrisy. No longer is sex a subject not fit to be discussed in mixed society, or even in polite un-mixed society, as is elsewhere the case. Sex is not given any undue importance, but takes its rightful place beside politics, art religion and any other subject No longer are Jokes which may contain some sexual allusion considered as dirty. Jokes which are really pornographic are not appreciated and are likely to meet with the sort of reception usually given to outrageous puns in fact on the one occasion during a recent Congress when, as a result of a small group's attitude the tone of a party's conversation did descend to a pornographic level, more than half of the company, and they were by no means prudes, walked resolutely out. Filth has little chance of success when sex is the subject of frank and open discussion.

One of our tasks, then, is to create an atmosphere making a natural and harmonious social coexistence of the sexes possible. Society being prejudiced as it is, thin wilt be no easy task. First of all we shall have to overcome our own prejudices. Once we learn to regard women (or men as the case may be) as not only attractive potential woo-mates but also as ordinary fellow beings in the process of living, we shall have got a long way. If we get to know each other at all levels, the sexual not excluded, we shall be much better fitted to make an ultimate choice of a marriage partner. Whatever sort of home we may come from, we must surely realise that married life consists of a lot more than sex in carrying through this page break desirable reformation we should not fear to be considered rebels.