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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
May 5, 1971
Dear Friend and Subscriber:
Seven years ago we published and offered, free of charge to
our subscribers, a 334-page book on sex and marriage. The book
was seriously NEEDED. Never before had there been a book like it!
The most important dimension in knowledge about sex and
marriage had been MISSING -- unpublished until this book. Since
then, the moral revolution has surged ahead at accelerating pace.
The whole moral climate has CHANGED, greatly, during the seven
years since we offered that book. The time has come when a NEW
REVISED EDITION of the book is a tragic NEED!
When my wife and I were married, in 1917, we sorely needed
honest, authoritative information on the subject. It was then
still unlawful to publish, sell, or distribute knowledge about
sex. I knew only what I had learned from other boys and young
men my age. Naturally I had received much misinformation. And
much vitally needed knowledge was missing. My wife's mother had
died when she was twelve, and her father taught her nothing.
After World War I, the legal bars prohibiting dissemination
of sex knowledge toppled. Sigmund Freud, founder of
psychoanalysis, and his followers, attributed neuroses and many
mental disturbances to sex repression and ignorance. They urged
dissemination of sex knowledge, and with it permissive full sexual
freedom, as the panacea. After the legal bars were removed, a
veritable tidal wave of sex literature flooded bookstores,
magazine and newspaper stands. But the most seriously needed
dimension of knowledge was MISSING!
Psychiatrists, medical doctors, and a number of Protestant
ministers cloaked the growing sexual freedom with a connotation
of respect, under the name, "The New Morality." But the PROBLEM
was not solved by this spreading moral revolution. As I write,
the morning newspapers carry the story of thousands of high school
girls becoming pregnant THROUGH IGNORANCE! Over our UPI-leased
news wire comes the story of 200,000 junior and senior high school
girls becoming unwed mothers.
It's time to face it! The new moral revolution IS NOT
INCREASING HUMAN HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING. And WHY? Because the
most VITAL dimension in knowledge, contained in the new REVISED
EDITION of our book, has been MISSING -- unpublished until now!