Foreword
The most difficult adjustment a family can make is to accept a pair of teenagers into it. The day to day pattern of life is changed. The predictable becomes unpredictable. Living patterns are disrupted and new emotions are introduced into a previously stable family.
One of the hardest emotions to cope with is sex.
Even in the best marriage, sex can become boring and only partially satisfying. And when a nubile, young girl full of life and energy comes on the scene, it is small wonder that a man suddenly stiffens up-drawing in his stomach and sticking out his penis, literally.
The woman, too, cannot help but be attracted to youthful muscles and the knowledge that a teenager's penis is always hard.
And the dilemma of modern psychology is the fact that while desire for one's mate wanes and one's sexual activity drops off, the result is a reduced desire for copulation. Use it or lose it, is the standard maxim by sexual psychologists. Inactivity is as destructive to sexual compatibility as is infidelity.
The answer lies not in the law, not in church, but in the individual. If the spark of sexual life can be kept going by sexual adventures with persons other than one's mate, is that better or worse than a clean cut divorce?
In the case of children, it is easier to say prohibition against sexual activity is in their best interest. But few believe that-not even the children themselves.
-THE PUBLISHER