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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: ignorant of notorious facts. We cannot, if we would, stop the spread
of sexual knowledge; and if we could do so, we would only make matters
infinitely worse. This is the second decade of the twentieth century,
not the early Victorian period.... It is no longer a question of
knowing or not knowing. We have to disabuse our middle-aged minds of
that fond delusion. Our young people know more than we did when we
began our married lives, and sometimes as much as we know, ourselves,
even now. So that we need not continue to shake our few remaining
hairs in simulating feelings of surprise or horror. It might have
been better for us if we had been more enlightened. And if our
discussion of this problem is to be of any real use, we must at the
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