SIR; A namesake of mine, Drusilla Scott, writes on sexual
freedom in your issue of July 9. I feel that I am as qualified as she is to write on this subject because I have not read Wayland Young either. But perhaps I have the additional qualification of not having read the review of Wayland Young.
But I must take her up on one point. I do not believe that there is any 'sexual free-for-all' that parents 'have to let their children loose into,' or that there is any 'present cult of sex.' I think these are imaginary terrors (natural to parents), but I am far more impressed with the openness and frank- ness of the present teenagers than I 'was with the secretiveness and hypocrisy of the teenagers of mY day.
And let us keep a sense of humour as well as proportion. As I heard one man saying very scriouslY to another after a lecture on family planning is Trinidad : 'They can say or do anything they like, but they'll never make it unpopular.'
Travellers' Club. Pall Mull. SW I
ALASTAIR
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