Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 4. April 27, 1959
Offensive
Offensive
The speaker drew the attention of the audience to the numerous statutory offences dealing with sexual immorality—rape, sexual intercourse with girls under 16, homosexuality, buggery. Even civil law frowned upon unchastity, by making adultery a ground for divorce. Under certain circumstances seduction was an actionable tort.
Society approved of people living chaste lives, but penalised people indulging in immoral sexual intercourse and perversions.
Mr Larsen concluded by saying Hitler wanted to populate the world with Nazi super-men. He gave his blond Teutonic men free rein. Hitler, the State, would look after the children.
Yet those children, children all over the world, were ostracised and called "bastards." Did society then approve of unchastity?