efficiency make possible a very short day-further changes might well be expected. Human relations will be structured primarily to relieve the monotony of leisurely luxurious living. Aesthetic pleasure and creativity, rather than survival and stability, will be the desiderata.

7. As and if society becomes more affluent, sex may come to be thought of, not as the reward of a romance determined to be thought of, not as the reward of a romance determined by chance, but as a commodity procurable in the social supermarket. One might be able to purchase whatever quantity or quality of sex he desires, provided he is able and willing to pay the price determined by supply and demand. Everyone may shop around, with perhaps a majority being sellers as well as buyers. French sexologist Rene Guyon put forth such suggestions nearly fifty year ago.

There may, of course, be numerous instances in which the parties are equally pleased with each other and trade even with neither giving the other anything to boot. One would expect the more attractive to be the main sellers and the least attractive the buyers, while those in between trade even. Once sex is divorced from the sacrosant notion that its main function is reproduction and is accepted as a means of improving the quality rather than the quantity of life, the stigma against its economic aspects may diminish. With sex a legitimate commodity, there will be no demand for a special class of pleasure dispensers ostracized from society. Prostitution, for the first time in history, may disappear.

"But the selling of sex," some will object, "is repulsive!" To some yes, as is working in sewers, nursing the sick, or performing dentistry. We pay for these services because they are not entirely pleasant to those performing them. Of course, those who found the selling of sex unduly repulsive would not earn a living this way but would find more congenial work. Many, however, can become accustomed to and enjoy work which to those not experienced in it appears repulsive.

Another objection. "With sexual pleasure as easy to procure as groceries, and with no stigma attached to it, would not people indulge to excess?" Perhaps just as we tend to overeat. Yet, there would be checks. The more disposed one was to engage in sexual lururies, the more he would have to work to afford it. And the more he worked, the more he would serve society through his labor, and the less time and energy he would have to indulge in the pursuit of luxury. The human potential for happily integrating biological needs with service to society is perhaps nearer to realization than most might suppose.

One might, of course, be faced with a choice between having an occasional expensive sex experience or frequent non-expensive (and hence less pleasurable) sex experiences. Whichever pattern preferred, one would soon discover a natural limit. While some doubtless would overindulge, the majority probably would be restrained by interest in other gratifications in the hierachy of human values.

8. With emphasis no longer on increasing population, the current stigma on homosexuality may largely disappear. The development of a liberal attitude toward sex, and mitigation of the real and imagined dangers of heterosexuality, might reduce the incidence of homosexuality. When one has no reason to fear unwanted pregnancies, venereal disease, and economic exploitation by the opposite sex, homosexuality could lose some of its glamor. It will continue to be preferred by a minority: but laws which discriminate be preferred by a minority: but laws which discriminate against this minority will be repealed, as is now being done to some extent, and legislation governing sex apply to heteroand homosexuality alike.

9. In addition to the various sex arrangements thus far suggested there will be others which, from a psychiatric

point of view, are by no means unfamiliar but which, heretofore have been largely unrecognized by the general public. I have reference to partnerships in the sadomasochistic, etc., area. Instead of marriages being between husband and wife in a conventional sense, there may also be "marriages" between master or mistress and slave, ("This relationship is perhaps intimated in the song, "These Boots are Made for Walking.") Consistent with democracy, such slavery will be voluntary and limited to whatever period the contract specifies. The power of master or mistress over slave will not be absolute but exercised only within limits approved by society.

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10. After everyone of every type has ample opportunity to gain from marriage or marriages the optimum of genuine value, a more elaborate synthesis may be in order a synthesis involving great creative forces to dramatize human relationships. As Fromm points out, "Most people today to be given prescriptions of 'how to do it yourself." Many, without a script to follow, feel lost and alienated and would welcome prescription of a role in a half-real, half-makebelieve drama. As children create make-believe situations, adults might devise dramas on a more sophisticated level, each actor playing a part consistent with his aptitudes, interests, and emotional needs.

If, for example, a youth desires to play the role of factory. worker (in a real factory producing real products), he will study the script to learn how, not just to perform his job, but to establish satisfactory sociosexual relationships with an appropriate partner or partners in the factory complex. From a vocational-training point of view, this might be significant. Whether one sticks with a job often depends less on the job per se than upon the value of the human relationships possible in the overall situation. With the script written in advance, many of the disconcerting unpredictables of life might be transformed into dramatic predictables, lending to human experience an aesthetic quality well nigh impossible in the fortuitous world of today.

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FOR CHILDREN

We hear it said that teenagers are growing up faster, engaging in sex practices earlier, and becoming more and more rambunctious and difficult for parents to control. If this is true and the trend continues, what can we reasonably expect?

With the development of a convenient birth control, there will no doubt be fewer children. A smaller percentage of the population will be parents. If eugenices is taken seriously and the values of artificial insemination appreciated, possibly no more than 25 percent of women and 2 percent of men will be parents.

This does not necessarily mean that the majority will be deprived of children and have to forego the renewal of spirit and other rewarding experiences which association with the young afford. There may be ample opportunity— for those qualified-to become foster parents, nurses, guardians, teachers, counselors, group leaders, et cetera.

Child neglect, overprotection, and abuse may be supplanted by a widespread systematic attempt to provide children with the best care and training possible in a scientifically enlightened humane community. Agencies and individuals other than parents will assume greater responsibility. Instead of a child having only two parents, he may have half a dozen "parents." Instead of two or three siblings, he may have a dozen chums-perhaps a big brother or big sister to assist with the obdurate problems of childhood.

The loneliness of little people-long the predicament of many a poor little rich boy as well as those in less affluent circumstances-may finally be eliminated and childhood become what it should be at its best. Instead of children being

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