Literature and Censorship SIR,—It has long been the policy of
those wishing to discredit supporters of religious, moral or political views with which they disagree to allege or insinuate that such people indulge in sexual excesses or per- versions. More recently the fashion has changed to accusing those whose opinions one dislikes of what is taken for granted to be a vile and insidious form of perversion, namely sexual repression, which according to your contributor, Mr Seymour-Smith (January 20), generates sadness, drabness, self- ignorance and joyless idiocy. Is there anything to choose between these two forms of slander? Ex- treme views of any kind on sex arc usually symptoms of sexual disharmony. Mr Seymour-Smith should ask himself whether he, too, might be a victim of self-ignorance.
EDWARD A. ARMSTRONG 23 Leys Road, Cambridge
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