24 JUNE 1966, Page 17

What Should . I Tell My Daughter?

SIR,—Your correspondents on 'What Should I Tell My Daughter?' seem to have moved into the Brave New World era. Can anyone offer practical advice to those who have not done so and who, for religious, moral, aesthetic reasons, are distressed by the casual and/or heavy petting of, say, teenage parties?

One has to be articulate as well as brave to parry a pass with a declaration of principle. The alternatives seem to be frenzied small-talk, assumed frigidity, or the insistence on one's insatiable appetite for dancing, eating or drinking: none of them likely to endear one to one's partner.

ANNE HENDERSON

St Brandons, Grange Road, Eastbourne, Sussex