Sex and Religion
This booklet is from one of the chapters in Sex and the Young.
Approx. 3,729 words.
n the debased lives of the violently depraved, a clean, fresh, subtle word is wanted, and instead of the soiled and degraded word 'sexual' life, for this new and elevated interplay between man and woman I propose the word 'erogamic' life.
Erogamic is a new word coined here and to-day for the purpose of crystallising a vital idea that is in our midst though barely recognised. It is derived from the Greek: eros love, zndgamos marriage or mating. I mint it with the intention that it shall designate that noble flower of the duality of human life, the mating and relation together of man and woman in all three planes physical, mental and spiritual.
Erogamic life, and not sexual life, is that which we who would reform the relation between man and woman hold up as a standard. I desire to set this idea free in all its potential power and beauty to do good in the world. The physiological aspects of normal sex we all have as a physical basis in our lives; for the evolved interplay of man and woman we can s