NOTHING ESPECIALLY NEW

by Manuel Boyfrank

From a talk given December 27, 1964 at First Unitarian Church, Los Angeles, California.

You're going to be disappointed when you see, as you presently will, that I can't tell you much more about sex than you already know. One reason for that is that your personal sexual situation is different from every other man's, as every person's face is unique among the three bil-

lion faces in the world.

Another limitation is that not enough is known about sex, by anybody. So many of the data that have been compiled have come from doctors and lawyers; and those fellows learned about love from sick persons and criminals-persons who make up only a tiny fraction of the man-loving

men or the woman-loving women.

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An expert who has a string of letters yea long after his name come and lecture you learnedly. He'll be a better speaker than I am, a faster thinker and more enjoyable to listen to; but when he stops talking you'll

note that he does not know all of the answers either.

Fortunately, common sense and commonly possessed knowledge are of help in this field. One of the best things that any expert can do is tell you to rely upon your own observation, your own measurements and your own reasoning. Beyond that there are too many questions to be gone into; and until ONE, Incorporated, got

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on the job it was against the law to ask those questions.

One Incorporated's historic legal victory against the forces of ignorance and malice-forces spearheaded by the postmaster of Los Angeles of the time -was a very near thing. We were hanging on the ropes when the issue came up for decision in the supreme court. If the litigation costs had come to one more dollar than we had put into the fight, we would have lost. We couldn't have raised another cent.

And the possibilities of malicious prosecution are still worrisome to anybody who tries to learn all of the

truth.

Research is one of the purposes of One, Incorporated, and in the dozen years that our outfit has been in existence we have found out many new things. And even if you do not obtain much information from me that you didn't have before, it is useful to sort out some things that you do know and to bring your knowledge into perspective. We can reduce some commonplaces to their proper propor-

tions.

Believing as I do, that irresponsible fatherhood is a grave crime-that it is as bad to beget a child and be unable or unwilling to support it as it is to commit murder-I am eager to say