The sexual freedom that the artist needs is freedom to love, not the gross freedom to relieve the bodily need with some unknown woman ; and freedom to love is what, above all, the conventional moralists will not concede. If art is to revive after the world has been Americanized, it will be necessary that America should change, that its moralists should become less moral and its immoralists less immoral, that both, in a word, should recognize the higher values involved in sex, and the possibility that joy may be of more value than a bank-account.
Source: Bertrand Russell :Marriage and Morals, 1929
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