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28 PLAN FOR CINEMA
more secret even than excrementation. . . . Now I have heard men, teachers and clergymen, commend masturbation as the solution of an otherwise insoluble sex problem. This is at least honest. The sex problem is there, and you can't just will it away. There it is, and under the ban of secrecy and taboo in mother and father, teacher, friend, and foe, it has found its own solution, the solution of masturbation.
Supposing this hypothesis could be proved, which it cannot, the proof would not point to any alarmist theory that a western world of half-idiots was slowly being born, as Lawrence further contends; on the contrary. It would, I think, point to the undeniable fact that it is preferable for a young man to indulge in onanism than be party to the increase of prostitution. Granted, as Lawrence says, that onanism produces a sense of shame, anger, and futility, it is a moot point if this frustration until marriage is not preferable to the further wholesale dissemination of venereal disease. If the vice of onanism exists, as Lawrence (who, certainly, is an extremist) says it does, then we must admit it. It would be more constructive, however, if the moralists who are so appalled at the corruptive influence of sex films were to turn their attention to the suppression of the private life publicity of the participants in them, rather than to the films themselves in which Wrong only on the rarest occasions triumphs over Right.
ยง 4. It might be thought by any one reading the above who is not a regular film-goer that cinema halls