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The Law is for All
perversions perish, just as a coiled spring straightens itself when 
the external compulsion is removed. They revert to their natural 
sex-characters, which only in rare cases are other than simple, 
pure, and refined. More, sex itself ceases to play Principal Boy in 
the Pantomime of Life. Other interests resume their proper 
proportions.
We may now inquire why the Book is at pains to admit as to 
love “when” and “where” we will. Few people, surely, have been 
seriously worried by restrictions of time and place. One can only 
think of lovers who live with fearsome families or in inhospitable 
lodgings, on a rainy night, buffeted from one police-bullied hotel 
to another.
Perhaps this permission is intended to indicate the propriety of 
performing the sexual act without shame or fear, not waiting for 
darkness or seeking secrecy, but by daylight in public places, as 
serenely as if it were a natural incident in a morning stroll.
Custom would soon surfeit curiosity, and copulation attract 
less attention than a new fashion in frocks. For the existing inter­
est in sexual matters is chiefly because, common as the act is, it is 
closely concealed. Nobody is excited by seeing others eat. A 
“naughty” book is as dull as a volume of sermons; only genius 
can vitalize either.
Beyond this, once love is taken for granted, the morbid fasci­
nation of its mystery will vanish.
The pander, the prostitute, the parasite will find their occupa­
tion gone.
Disease will go straight to the doctor instead of to the quack, 
as it does; the altars of Mrs. Grundy run red with the blood of her 
faithful!
The ignorance or carelessness of a raw youth will no longer 
hound him to hell. A blighted career or a ruined constitution will 
no more be the penalty of a moment’s exuberance.
Above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of 
the sexual process, its physical insignificance as one among many 
parts of the body, its transcendent importance as the vehicle of the 
True Will and the first of the sheaths of the Self.