Tonight, as I prepare for a Titus 2 Retreat, I read from my grandmother’s book, What A Young Woman Ought to Know. The book, by Mary Wood-Allen, M.D., is but one in her Purity and Truth series authored in 1898. If anyone wants to say to me: Hmm. That’s quite dated, isn’t it? I will respond: Truth is never dated.
Dr. Wood-Allen writes:
We seldom think of the fact that upon sex depend all the sweet ties of home and family. It is because of sex that we are fathers, mothers, and children; that we have the dear family life, with its anniversaries of weddings and birthdays. It is through sex that the ‘desolate of the earth are set in families,’ and love and generosity have sway instead of selfishness. For this reason we ought to regard sex with reverent thought, to hold it sacred to the highest purposes, to speak of it ever with purest delicacy, and never with jesting . . . .”
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