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This Booklet form one of the chapter* 
in * Stx and the Toung,' First Pub- 
lished 1926, Popular Edition 1928 

First Published in this form December, 1929 



Sex and Religion 

IT is my hope that this booklet may be 
of use to all parents and teachers what- 
ever their religion or lack of it may be, 
whatever their country or social tradition. 

There are those who maintain that 
instruction in sex matters should be 
entirely divorced from religion. Religions, 
however, date from ancient days. Nearly 
every religion concerns itself with sex, and 
religious views cannot summarily be dis- 
entangled from the social consciousness 
on sex matters, even if it were ultimately 
possible to do so. But is it possible or 
right entirely to dissociate religion and 
sex ? I think not. My reason for this view 
I give on p. 8. 

Religion, as most of us know it, is 
presented to us with outward trappings, 
which though non-essential appear essen- 
tial to the uncritical mind. These outward 
trappings vary widely even among different 
sects of the same religion. 

The customs and peculiarities of some 
of the sects, even those which maintain 
themselves in a modern civilised country 
like England, appear to many to be 
revoltingly barbaric or disingenuously 



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illogical. It is such irrelevant and local 
manifestations on the part of the human 
representatives and institutions of various 
sects which encourage the hasty to con- 
clude that all religion is best kept away 
from sex matters, because sex of all sub- 
jects at present requires consideration in 
the clear light of unbiased truth. The 
practices of some exponents of religion 
make it clear that truth and logical thought 
are remote from them. When one knows 
for instance that a priesthood sterilises 
some of its young boys, castrating them 
to preserve their soprano voices, but af 
the same time condemns the "wickedness" 
of scientifically controlling the conception 
of diseased and unwholesome children, 
one is tempted to doubt whether priests 
have any right to claim serious attention 
in sex ethics. When one also learns that 
a sect considers it worse than murder to 
permit a young girl to menstruate before 
she marries, and thus incites to child 
marriages, one feels as though the only 
hope for a rational sex life would be for 
such religions to be swept off the face of 
the earth. One cannot but feel there is 
some excuse for those agnostics who 



SEX AND RELIGION 7 

denounce religions as the root of our sex 
problems, difficulties and diseases. 

I feel, however, that the profundities 
of religion are not essentially involved in 
these and other deplorable individual 
manifestations. Not only does the human 
race need religion, but it needs a religious 
realisation immensely more profound and 
more interwoven into the consciousness 
and daily life of the people than any 
save the exceptional mind has hitherto 
possessed. I would not cut religion away 
from the consideration of sex, but I 
would, on the contrary, reform the exist- 
ing religions and build them more deeply 
into the essential life of mankind. 

As the tenets of the numerous sects 
upon the earth vary so widely, what can 
one possibly say on the theme of religion 
and sex which will be equally true of them 
all, and may be equally helpful to the 
believers of all creeds ? Their diversity is 
so great, the hasty may say, that there is 
nothing that can possibly be said which 
will be true and helpful to the believers in 
all religions. But I say not only is there 
one thing to be said, but that it is a most 
profoundly helpful and racially important 



8 SEX AND RELIGION 

thing, and it can be accepted by all the 
exponents of all religions. It is as follows : 

God Himself creates human 
beings by the use of the sex organs 
of human beings at present exist- 
ing in this world. In this way 
humanity collaborates in the divine 
work of creation. 

Hence all knowledge and all facts 
about the sex organs and their most 
intimate structure, and the physiological 
laws which govern their material expres- 
sion, are not only of supreme interest and 
importance to the human race but should 
be a highly honoured branch of social 
wisdom. 

The consciousness that God requires 
human collaboration through the very same 
material means which the vulgar have 
debased in idea, must, if fully realised, 
safeguard youth, protect purity and 
strengthen the race. It must elevate and 
intensify the feeling of spiritual unity 
with the Divine which it is the object of 
almost all religions to inculcate among a 
humanity prone to backslide. The separa- 
tion of religion from daily life, the fre- 
quency of sex crimes even on the part 



SEX AND RELIGION 9 

of those trying 'to lead a religious life,* 
all arise from a lack of realisation of the 
soul's marvellous potency and the Divine 
power within the racial organs. 

In acceptance of the above profound 
truth all religions worshipping God under 
any of His numerous names could unite. 
That agreement and that realisation will 
be a great step forward for humanity. 

Alas! the different sects, with their 
various and differing traditions, and 
changing and diverse customs, will inter- 
pret this great truth differently. One of 
the obstacles in the way of its realisation 
will be the traditions already maintained 
and established within the sects. Most 
of these date back for many centuries and 
many are based on false ideas and ideals 
initiated during times of primitive physio- 
logical ignorance.' These encourage the 
'religious' person to look upon sex life 
as 'self-indulgence,' to glorify the ascetic 
rather than the married who carry on the 
race, and in many respects to place on a 
low level, if not actually to degrade, the 
manifestations of a normal sex life. 

Each adherent of each sect will find for 
himself the warping of the Truth his own 



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sect suffers from, and must fight out this 
battle individually for himself or her- 
self. The truths enunciated on page 8 
are warped, hindered, or even positively 
denied, in many quarters. I do not wish 
here to enter on a consideration of the 
various and widely diverse teachings of 
different sects on sex matters. In recent 
years there has been much change and 
modification, even on the part of such 
sects as the Roman Catholics. Parents 
and teachers who attempt to discuss in 
detail the sex teachings of the various 
religions with a young, enquiring and 
penetrating mind will find themselves 
confronted by some very difficult tasks. 

Turning from the absolutely universal 
to the particular aspects of one of the 
great world religions, Christianity, we are 
faced at once by an immense difficulty in 
dealing with the young. Parts of both the 
Bible and the Prayer Book are unfit for 
a child's perusal. When the Holy Books 
of a State religion are unfit reading for 
that nation's young, what can one say 
about the officials, priesthoods and religi- 
ous leaders who blunder along burking 
recognition of this fact? Some parts of 



SEX AND RELIGION II 

the Bible are not read aloud in congre- 
gation, but the printed Book complete is 
to be found in very nearly every school 
and home. While it is true that 'to the 
pure all things are pure,' the kind of 
answers a child in its purity will receive, 
when it asks the meaning of some of the 
Bible texts, will be (if it has not already 
had the misfortune to receive it) its first 
lesson in lying and prevarication by its 
elders. 

To one who takes religion seriously the 
present state of affairs appears appalling. 
Why do the leaders of the Churches not 
do their obvious duty, and boldly recog- 
nise the difficulties surrounding parents 
and young people of the present day, and 
put an end to the shams and pretences 
that are rampant? We have expurgated 
Shakespeare and somewhat modernised 
his diction, and to read the sixteenth- 
century Shakespeare one has to be a 
student with a student's ticket for the 
British Museum. The Bible, which was 
translated about the same epoch, could 
also be expurgated without being tam- 
pered with otherwise. Until this is done 
and the current editions of the Bible 



12 SEX AND RELIGION 

cleaned up, parents and teachers who are 
in the frank confidence of young people 
are liable to have extremely awkward 
discussions raised by some of the texts. 

The parents themselves should be 
responsible for the religious instruction 
of their children. Yet even were this 
universally so, and no religious instruction 
given in any school, the class teacher 
could not eliminate all consideration of 
the various ideas and traditions of differing 
sects current among the pupils. 

Without taking into account the minor 
influences of many different religions and 
moralities which impinge on our more 
or less accepted code, it is necessary, if 
intelligible discussion is to be conducted 
with an unbiased and enquiring young 
mind, to realise the different, and some- 
times conflicting, threads woven into the 
strands of our current ideas. 

Much of the confused thinking and the 
conflict current when sex matters art 
considered, are due to the fact that we 
do not possess one settled and accepted 
code or belief as to what our race and 
nation should aim at, nor even what we 
consider moral. In the Bible itself very 



SEX AND RELIGION 13 

different and conflicting precepts are co- 
existent and may be even read out in our 
national church on the same day. Each 
receives some acceptance, and parts of 
each code may be more or less fervently 
advocated by estimable people. 

First, in our Christian religion, lingers 
the ancient Jewish morality, which bids 
us 'increase and multiply and replenish 
the earth. 1 Fecundity is its aim, and where 
it has undisputed sway, polygamy and 
even the 'raising of seed* by a deceased 
husband's brother were virtuous. The 
morality of fecundity is still often ardently 
preached by those who adopt parts of this 
old code to suit their arguments. 

Secondly, we have in our current codes 
the influences of the Pauline and Augus- 
tine morality (which was possibly a reaction 
from some of the more obviously crude 
results of the previous one) which advo- 
cates the elimination of sex influence so far 
as possible. In line with this we have the 
celibacy of the clergy, of monks, and nuns 
and the exaltation of virginity above mother- 
hood. 

Priests still obey the echo of the early 
Christian Fathers, who, believing the end 



14 SEX AND RELIGION 

of the world was approaching and desir- 
able, urged the cessation of all child- 
bearing and condemned all sex life. Thus 
in present-day Christianity there still is 
the conflict of diametrically opposite teach- 
ings about our most important function, 
and quite young people detect the conflict 
and are disturbed by it. 

Thirdly, permeating our code are influ- 
ences from the religions of the ancient 
pagan world through Rome, in which the 
family and its inheritance of property led 
to relations between the husband and wife 
often in conflict with that which is best 
for each of them as individuals. 

Fourthly, there is the more modern 
tenet, referred to by Mr. Aylmer Maude 
in his Life of Tolstoy, where it is said that 
in the morality of sex 'what makes for 
the health, happiness, and efficiency of 
the present and future generations is good, 
and what makes in the contrary direction 
is evil/ 

The absence of any clear-cut, nationally 
accepted basis of sex morality causes not 
only confusion of thought but lies at the 
root of much wrong-doing. 

It is very important that those in charge 



SEX AND RELIGION 15 

of the young should realise this, and by 
recognising the separate and sometimes 
conflicting strands in our complex current 
codes, should warn the young against 
being carried off their feet when any one 
of the component parts are pressed on 
them by ardent but narrow-minded people. 

At no period of human life on this 
earth, even actually before birth, does sex 
lack significance. 

Its manifest workings upon our daily 
lives, however, are wielded through the 
invisible supremacy of nerve and gland 
over our tissues. Though we experience 
the results of the balanced sex control of 
our bodies, humanity has not until recently 
even been aware of the existence of these 
interactions. Hence no vocabulary for 
these sex ideas exists other than the 
scientific language of those who have 
made the discoveries. And hence the usual 
national sex-inhibitions do not apply to 
this aspect of sex life. Strange and illogical 
as , it seems to one to whom all natural 
aspects of sex are pure, this particular 
phase alone has been accepted as a quite 
legitimate subject for public discussion* 
In my opinion this desirable openness 



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about some of the inherent mysteries of 
sex, which is so strikingly in contrast to 
the reticence and vulgarity of our treat- 
ment of other scientific truths about sex, 
is very largely due to the fact that from 
the first the ideas had a suitable vocabulary. 
Hence newspapers do not hesitate to 
publish reports about the action of hor- 
mones, the secretions of the ductless 
glands, of the pineal or pituitary, nor 
to accept advertisements about cognate 
matters of the most intricate and intimate 
nature in our sex lives quite calmly, 
reasonably and, in my opinion, properly, 
although this frankness is in marked 
contrast to their attitude toward other 
and equally important aspects of sex 
physiology. When we turn to consider 
other facts of sex life, and especially those 
experienced for centuries, we find a 
shame-faced dirtiness of mind upon the 
subject, and that the Press hinders seriou? 
efforts to enlighten the public. Here 3 
see that the absence of an acceptable vocabu- 
lary is revealed as having a great influence 
on the trend of thought. For some of the 
basic facts or sex life, known since the 
mists of antiquity, were in those days 



SEX AND RELIGION 17 

considered too sacred or too shameful to 
be spoken of. Hence each generation of 
fresh young people spontaneously frank 
with their simple enquiries about these 
facts (as about all others in this world) 
are hushed by their elders. 

If those who look on sex as sacred will 
not reveal its mysteries, and in all the 
centuries which have passed have failed 
to create a sacred vocabulary in which to 
initiate youth, we can scarcely be surprised 
that youth turns to other sources for infor- 
mation. Those to whom sex is a lewd 
enjoyment naturally snigger with congenial 
companions, and the result is that young 
people hear the wanton tattle or its echoes. 
The children of each generation receive 
in turn a strong bias, inclining them to 
think of the well-known facts of sex as 
shameful and not as sacred. 

Nothing will rectify this profound racial 
rror, nothing will put an end to this 
hocking irreverence, but a vocabulary. 

We must have words to use which 
enable those who consider sex a sacred, 
or at any rate serious, beautiful and 
dignified thing, to express their meaning. 
The old question, 'What's in a name? A 



1 8 SEX AND RELIGION 

rose by any other name would smell as 
sweet/ is in this respect to be answered 
most emphatically 'Everything is in a 
name/ 

The word sex and most of its deriva- 
tives have become contaminated in the 
minds of a large proportion of people. 
The result of this is that whenever one 
who has something to say uses the word 
(as of necessity it must be used in dealing 
with the subject) deep inhibitions, re- 
actions, obsessions and antagonisms are 
roused in some or many of those who hear 
the word, and the result is a condition of 
mental conflict in which the new and 
sweet ideas suffer as do small boats tossed 
in a tempest. 

I am convinced that the majority of 
decent people to-day are not inherently 
opposed to the ideas which those who 
would reform sex matters in our midst 
are desirous of placing before the public* 
Yet as the ancient word 'sex' has not thfe 
conveyance of a single or simple concept 
but is an omnibus packed with ill-assorted, 
conflicting ideas, some of them foul and 
obscene, the whole 'bus load seems to be 
indited by their presence. 



SEX AND RELIGION 19 

Let us think what the word sex denotes 
to the average mind a swift, hazy, 
kaleidoscopic series of half-blurred pictures 
of the worse than bestiality in dens and 
haunts of degraded mankind; of the bar- 
barities of the male savage towards his 
female; of the refined horror of modern 
prostitution; of the purely physical relation 
of the mating animals. Try as he will the 
modern man cannot free his own mental 
concept of sex from some fringe, some 
hazy aura of all these things because the 
word sex is applied to them all and they, 
therefore, fantastically appear to be aspects 
of the same thing which he and his noble 
and beautiful beloved are living together. 
The life that he and his beloved are living 
together is, however, not comparable nor 
is it soiled by the attributes of these other 
phenomena. It is, in my opinion, a freshly 
evolved, nobler, subtler, immensely richer 
and more beautiful thing than the primitive 
dr the aberrant forms which it has passed 
and outwinged on its way upwards. 

For the modern relation between man 
and woman mated or living in the in- 
numerable interdependencies, the mutual 
obeisances, the mutual respects which are 



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not paralleled at all in the sex relation of 
the primitive peoples or in the debased 
lives of the violently depraved, a clean, 
fresh, subtle word is wanted, and instead 
of the soiled and degraded word 'sexual' 
life, for this new and elevated interplay 
between man and woman I propose the 
word 'erogamic' life. 

Erogamic is a new word coined here 
and to-day for the purpose of crystallising 
a vital idea that is in our midst though barely 
recognised. It is derived from the Greek: 
eros love, zndgamos marriage or mating. 
I mint it with the intention that it shall 
designate that noble flower of the duality 
of human life, the mating and relation 
together of man and woman in all three 
planes physical, mental and spiritual. 

Erogamic life, and not sexual life, is 
that which we who would reform the 
relation between man and woman hold 
up as a standard. I desire to set this idea 
free in all its potential power and beauty 
to do good in the world. The physio- 
logical aspects of normal sex we all have 
as a physical basis in our lives; for the 
evolved interplay of man and woman we 
can speak of erogamic life and leave the 



SEX AND RELIGION 21 

word 'sexual' to those who still roll in the 
filth and who delight in the unclean 
echoes of the centuries. 

For dictionary purposes the new 
word erogamic may be defined 
as: All that relation, in cultivated 
communities, between man and 
woman as mated pair which in- 
volves their mutual interplay and 
interdependencies in physical, 
mental and spiritual life. 

I trust that the fresh word for the fresh 
and beautiful concept (essentially charac- 
teristic of this century) of nobly and 
completely mated man and woman may 
replace the soiled and bedraggled collec- 
tion of ideas and themes at present 
lumped together under the words 'sex' 
and 'sexual/ Indeed I feel acutely that 
the world has rightly sickened of 'talk of 
things sexual/ The word is itself sicken- 
ing, but that nobler thing which has 
grown in our midst is a great and beautiful 
Fact which we can sense better when it is 
defined and described in a word giving 
a clear, fresh picture. 

All human beings with but few tragic 
exceptions (and these are pathetic, abnor- 



22 SEX AND RELIGION 

mal and misformed individuals) are clearly 
and completely of one type or the other 
of the human duity. I revive the use of 
'duity> which is an ancient word but little 
known, for the human duality God in 
His unity, mankind in our duity is the 
contrast contained in the word, and I use 
it because I think here too is the sugges- 
tion of a fresh atmosphere for man and 
woman dwelling in complete harmony 
with the interplay of all their own indi- 
vidual qualities, creating the perfect human 
duity. All the cruelties, abominations, 
contaminations, terrors and indecencies 
which have resulted from the misuse of 
the purely physical aspects of sex will be 
ultimately swept away by the higher form 
of -dual life. For not only in our material 
bodies but in an overwhelming degree 
throughout our social life and all our 
institutions does the. richness and the 
vitality of life depend on the bifurcation 
of the human species and its mutual 
elevation and evolution. There is no 
escaping the reality of the erogamic life 
unless one envelops one's intellect in a 
cloudy fog of mental confusion. Those 
who live in such confusion may maintain 



SEX AND RELIGION 23 

that this duity is non-essential. But why 
should those who see the light follow those 
who have merely dulled the intelligence? 
Given a realization of all the beauty and 
the potential power that the dual harmony 
in the erogamic life can contain, none 
would desire to escape into mono-sexual 
asceticism, but with a bold and joyous 
front would face the facts, recognising the 
marvellous richness that the play and 
interplay of man and woman has made 
with all their ultimate ramifications of 
beauty and art, social conventions and 
decoration. Those who claim that the 
higher intellectual and spiritual achieve- 
ments of the erogamic life can be surpassed 
in any other way are merely deluding 
themselves. 

The new and still nascent higher sex 
morality which I am trying to crystallise 
(as in Married Love, the New Gospel, and 
parts of my other books) encourages 
complete health and happiness in indi- 
viduals welded into life-long devotion on 
the part of the married pair and presents 
the idea of the erogamic life of the 
human duity as the highest mun- 
dane expression of life. The new code 



24 SEX AND RELIGION 

imposes the duty that this human duity 
shall reproduce its kind consciously and 
deliberately in the interests of the Race 
and as the flower of the noblest erogamic 
life of the adults. This new morality 
restores Christ's gospel of Love and 
shields it with knowledge, exalts mother- 
hood above virginity but only when it is 
responsible motherhood, and eliminating 
the evils of polygamy and prostitution 
yet restores due respect to the vitalising 
gift of sex experience. 

I desire to close with the main thought 
contained in it, that our sex life is our most 
direct link with the Divine life, and there- 
fore a reverent enquiry into and a deep 
knowledge of all the relevant facts about 
sex are not only legitimate but essential 
to one who desires to help youth to lead 
a noble life. 



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