Author protests sex-oriented life
NEW YORK (UPI) — Someone asked the little boy if he knew the difference between the sexes and he replied seriously:
"Of course I do. Women are the ones who dance backwards."
From this and other examples of the fresh and innocent view of life held by the young, Sam Levenson has drawn the theme of his book, "Sex and the Single Child," his first since his autobiography, "Everything but Money" made the best-seller charts a couple of years ago.
Levenson described his book in an interview as "a defense of innocence against the conscious pressure for sex in everything in our society."
"Unfortunately," he said, "we seem to be creating a world in which all innocence must be eliminated immediately because it is equated with ignorance. At the same time we are attacking the awe and wonder with which children have always learned about the world. Children instinctively avoid the scientific approach. They are more interested in creation—who am I?— than creation.
"Believe me, at three he's already worried about immortality. He wants to know if 'they' sent him can 'they' take him back."
Levenson said the book represents years of thought on the subject.
"What happens between two
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people should be love not sex. I think a child who believes in God has a very good start. He has a feeling that comes from eternity, a feeling of the universality of life—and not an obsession with the plumbing. We used to say 'what's your hurry to grow up?' Now we pressure cook our children into maturity."
Levenson said sex was a three-letter word into which people were trying to put too many four-letter words. For this he blames "the intellectuals" wildly theorizing as though humans were a brand new species.
"They've eliminated all the old inhibitions about sex so why are so many people on the psychiatrists couches, confused, bewildered and sated?" he said.
"They write endlessly on every aspect of human relations, finding something new every day—like the portentous advice given mothers on how to prepare a child for the arrival of another son or daughter.
"My own introduction to a new brother or sister were the words 'move over' from my father. What's wrong with that?"
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