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As villages, cities, countries, and whole civilizations grow in size their problems grow with it. The more people, the more problems. Today a fuss is being made about the dangers of the population explosion. But the only kind of remedy which the world considers seriously is mechanical or chemical birth control, the use of some kind of contraceptive. It does not seem to occur to most people that the root of the matter lies in their enslavement to sexual passions and that only a voluntary sex control arrived at by their own inner growth can deal with this problem without creating adverse or harmful side effects--whether personal or social--as the contraceptives are causing.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 42