4 APRIL 1947, Page 5

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Whether the current issue of The Practitioner (7s. 6d.), devoted as a special number to "Sex and its Disorders," has made that choice of subject with any reference to the investigations in the same sphere (or part of it) now being initiated by the Church of Eng- land Moral Welfare Committee is not clear, but I note that the Bishop of London, who is chairman of the committee in question, contributes the opening article in The Practitioner, and that Mr. Henry Willink, the former Minister of Health, who writes, most instructively, on the legal aspects of artificial insemination, is on a sub-committee of the Moral Welfare Committee dealing with that new and difficult problem. With the plea of The Practitioner for a frank discussion of sex matters on a scientific basis there will be general agreement, but many of the articles in its present issue are couched (perhaps inevitably) in language far too technical for the ordinary reader.

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