The sex obsession
Sir: I regret your publication (6 September) of Christopher Booker's rag-bag of smears and non-sequiturs threatening us with 'the misery and despair of a galloping sexual instability'.
A leading social psychologist stated re- cently on TV 'I do not believe that the amount of fornication and adultery in society has altered much in ten thousand years' and your contributor offers no hard facts to prove him wrong. However, the Registrar-General's returns make it only too clear that there never was a time in which so many young people rushed to legalise their unions at the earliest possible age.
Personally I think that the abolition of the gap between school leaving and matri- mony socially unhealthy, but suspect that people like Mrs Whitehouse and Mr Booker welcome it as 'moral'. If sex causes 'misery' why do people go for it, and if it doesn't, what's the objection?
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