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Writing for a college paper, I can only give Mr. Goodman mild publicity. But supposing he is using this dubious Reichean doctrine as a simple go-ahead for his own sexual self-aggrandizement? This sacrifices others to his caprice. Would not he, on reflection, be ashamed? Reich himself, as A.S. Neill points out was anti-promiscuity in sex. No school of psychology considers Don Juan a healthy...
That monogamous union can be no more than an "inhibiting jall" for Goodman, suggests that his capacity for genuinely loving another may be as ephemeral as his sexual loyalty. I think that extra-marital sex is better than loveless fidelity. But neither, much as I hate to sound square, is as happy as affectionate and spontaneous constancy...
...need hardly reply to Goodman's allegation that I distorted his opinions on pregnancy when his own example supports my inference. Needless to say, the middle-class will not "learn" overnight simply at Goodman's command. And how can we have any revolution in this society without enlisting the middle-class...
Neill, in an aside to Goodman in "The Village Voice" remarked, "Paul might say! what does it matter anyway? Ultimately not a bit: which of us will matter in a hundred years? But today...
...today! This is what I have called callous. Dr. Blaine is wrong in falling to join Goodman in condemnation of society's hostility to bastardy and the unwed mother. Goodman is wrong in pooh-poohing Blaine's recognition of this unhappy attitude as social fact. Properly, we should work towards changing the situation without minimizing the damage to people caught in the wake of social change. To Goodman, these are expendable and unimportant droplets in a great wave. To Blaine, they are miserable individuals who seek his therapy...