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It was apparently not easy for the author to overcome his resistance to adding one other book to the long list of books about sex. What we need, according to the author, is not more books on the subject, but more time in which to digest them. The author, however,
overcame his misgivings in order to point the way toward a new sexual ethics to take the place of what was destroyed in the fight for sexual freedom of the last fifty years. The need for such an ethic is so great because church and law are equally uncharitable in the harshness with which they punish any offender against their code of ethics. It is stated, however, that although the church's emphasis on sexual immorality as the 'one great sin' has aggravated our difficulties, it has not created them.
The spiritual godfathers of the book are Havelock Ellis, Wilhelm Stekel, H. G. Wells and Julian Huxley.