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perverse as to desire something more than keeping house and sharing a barren bed with an old man.
The moralists do not see that, to place a woman in such a position and keep her there under the threat of social persecution, amounts to denying her the right of motherhood,-a right given by nature to every woman. Can anything be more immoral and sinful than depriving a woman of the delight of motherhood ? No moralist would brand motherhood and the desirc to have children as sinful. Then, how could thcy reasonably maintain their stupid attitude towards sex relations ? There is no other way to motherhood. Only prophets and avatars are immaculately conceived. If motherhood is divinc, the way to it cannot be sinful. When a natural impulse is placed under stupid taboos, it is bound to seck satisfaction in tortuous channels. The notion of morality that runs counter to the laws of nature is immoral. It leads to corruption and crime.
E A middle-aged woman was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment on the charge of complicity in a clandestinc act involving two deaths. The charge was not murder. A grown-up son of hers was also convicted as an accomplice.
The family concerned belonged to the urbair trading class,-fairly well-to-do. The dead body of a new-born child was found in a lane by the house
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