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Sex Flaunted In Movies/Pastor Says In SeminarYou young people must [bed of roses. Unless you are I This seminar was spon-pick up the tab for my gene- realistic, the marriage will sored by the Student Govern ration’s hypocrisy about very likely fail.” I ment Association here.I* VI «sex, said the Rev. J.P. Woodson Jr., pastor of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church here and opening speaker for a three-session Seminar on Preparation for Marriage.“We want to gorge ourselves at the table of affluence/* he said, “and sex is flaunted before you in books, movies and advertising. But we are also quite enamored of the past, and we want to maintain the morals of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This hypocrisy on our part simply makes for problems on your part/*The Reverend Woodson said that because of the differing opinions as to the norms of sex, most persons live in the gray of the norm most of the time.He told the audience that Sex is not dirty, but it is holy and right. But because the sex drive is the result of a great psychosomatic need, and because of the fears associated with it are inherent in our training and culture, only in a marriage relationship can we fully appreciate sex for what it is meant to be/*He added that “with premarital sex comes guilt, a result partly of early training or fear of pregnancy or disappointment to our parents: This guilt varies with the individual and the violation of the norm, for there are varying degrees of sin. Therefore we must look at each individual in order to judge/’ As to marriage, he said that “we must come to terms I with normal and realistic ideas and not view it as aA--
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Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1967
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