Sir: The way the left has reacted to Sir Keith
Joseph's speech simply shows how much they have been misled and conned by the pseudo-revolutionaries. His remarks, however, may be seen in a slightly different light. They imply what I have always felt — that those who are suffering most from spurious permissiveness are the weaker and poorer members of society. The New Statesman has called it all 'the democratisation of sexual joy' — falsely equating 'joy' with pornography and sadism, as F. R. Leavis has pointed out. But in truth, as I have realised, those who suffer most from the distortions and corruptions of the sadistic film and pornographic exploitation are the kind of child discussed in my book English for the Rejected
— young people whose imaginative powers can be fostered, but who, because of their lack of endowment of intelligence, or because of their povertY, or because of bad homes, are evident potential victims for the false solutions, of hate. The cruelty of the left-wing position is that it leaves these young people exposed to their fate, or, as in the fGoLrCth, earnatuoablley vmicaiokuesslyit exmpoloreitePd°ssible . New Farm House, MaDdainvgidleHy°, IbCra°12 Cambridge
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