Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel The Way You Do

About this film

LibriVox recording of Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel The Way You Do by James Thurber; E. B. White. Read in English by Zach Hoyt. From the Foreword: “During the past year, two factors in our civilization have been greatly overemphasized. One is aviation, the other is sex. Looked at calmly, neither diversion is entitled to the space it has been accorded. Each has been deliberately promoted. In the case of aviation, persons interested in the sport saw that the problem was to simplify it and make it seem safer. They introduced stabilizers and emergency landing fields. Even so, the plain fact remained that very few people were fitted for flying. With sex, the opposite was true. Everybody was fitted for it but there was a lack of general interest. The problem in this case was to make sex seem more complex and dangerous. This task was taken up by sociologists, analysts, gynecologists, psychologists, and authors; they approached it with a good deal of scientific knowledge and an immense zeal. They joined forces and made the whole matter of sex complicated beyond the wildest dreams of our fathers. The whole country became flooded with books. Sex, which had hitherto been a physical expres…

Directors & creators

James Thurber; E. B. White

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;humor; parody

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