The Practicing Physician, the Community, and the Question of Moralities

Abstract

Out-of-wedlock births, illegal abortions, children being raised by parents who are themselves children, broken marriages at all ages, homosexuality, venereal disease—these and other problems relating to human sexual behavior can no longer be ignored. The obligation to deal constructively with them rests with the professionals in all fields of family service. It is not enough to shake our heads in moralistic judgment. We must come to terms with sexuality. A newly formed voluntary health agency, SIECUS, is described. Its purpose is “to establish man's sexuality as a health entity.”