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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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It consists of two pieces, made of porous material, one covering the breasts with a band over the shoulders, and the other covering the abdomen below the navel and drawn between the legs.

This minimal costume, while neither ideal nor aesthetic, adequately covers the sexual regions of the body, while leaving the arms, waist, hips, and legs entirely free.
There finally remains the moral aspect of nakedness.

Although this has been emphasized by many during the past half century it is still unfamiliar to the majority.

The human body can never be a little thing.
The wise educator may see to it that boys and girls are brought up in a natural and wholesome familiarity with each other, but a certain terror and beauty must always attach to the spectacle of the body, a mixed attraction and repulsion.

Because it has this force it naturally calls out the virtue of those who take part in the spectacle, and makes impossible any soft compliance to emotion.


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