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Harold J. Laski: I do not know, indeed, how we are to create a healthy social attitude to the problems of sex, if all that deals with it…

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I do not know, indeed, how we are to create a healthy social attitude to the problems of sex, if all that deals with it from a new point of view, and with a frankness that admits the experimental nature of our contemporary solutions, is to be dismissed as “obscene”.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues for a more open discussion about sexuality, criticizing the dismissal of frank discussions as obscene.

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