17 MARCH 1967, Page 23

Sir: Have you the courage to print a letter from

a mother to her daughter, whose virginity she wishes her to retain, as against such a man as Simon Raven exhorts his son to be. And have you also the courage to record the misery and heart- break which women have to suffer because of the lust of men? Any welfare worker among un- married mothers, victims of seduction and rape— a four-letter word, you notice—(despite Mr Raven's exhortation to cheap service at a chemist's) could give you this information.

I know women in both categories who would write these articles.