Impressionable age
Sir: It is interesting that Dr John Linklater should confirm that what children learn at an early age they come to regard as normal. Writing in the Observer Magazine, Miss Gillian Freeman says that teachers encourage children to regard perverted practices as normal, whilst the latest government health report says that the principal carriers of VD are homosexuals. Thus, it is a fallacy that the increasing incidence of VD is connected with rising promiscuity. In every country which regards perverted practices as normal there is a high rate of VD.
Since VD is transmitted only by personal contact, how did the first person contract this disease? Clearly, the first person to suffer from VD must have indulged either in homosexual practices or in sex with animals. In Ancient Greece, sex with animals was regarded as one sign of a highly-educated man. Hence the legends about centaurs, and the high esteem in which classics is held in public schools and some grammar schools.
An American historian recently wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that the most striking difference between America and China is the lack of colour in China and the dull, drab lives of the people. She said that the West must bring colour into the lives of young people in China, but a passage in one of Anthony Lawrence's World Service talks about the encouragement of 'idealism' in China was deleted from the printed version in the Listener.
In both Chinese and Western languages, :.colour' means pornography (seqing is the Chinese for pornography), whilst 'idealism' is the academic term for soliciting in the streets for 'boys,' the method used by Socrates in recruiting students for his Academy.
A. J. H. Brown 46 Merryton Avenue, Giffnock, Glasgow
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