4 SEPTEMBER 1964, Page 20

really won't do for Mr. Hollis to chalk it up

as a credit to Christianity that it saved us all from the fear of castration. The cults of Cybele and Allis were cults of the mystical, fanatical few, whereas Christianity has till our own day been the official creed of Western Europe. It is simply a perverse blinking of patent fact to deny that this has resulted in sex being diabolically tainted with fear, filth and guilt in the consciousness of the ordinary man. G. REICHARDT 12a Mount Pleasant Road, Poole