Dr Joseph Daniel Unwin died age 40
Dr. Unwin’s studies were interrupted by his death at age 40
Dr. Pitirim Sorokin:
During the first stage of the Revolution, its leaders deliberately attempted to destroy marriage and the family. Free love was glorified by the official ‘glass of water’ theory
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Within a few years, hordes of wild, homeless children became a menace to the Soviet Union.
Joseph Daniel UNWIN (6-12-1895 – 18-6-1936)
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Nature 138, 234-234 (08 August 1936) doi:10.1038/138234b0
Obituary – Dr. Joseph Daniel Unwin August 8,1936
WE regret to record the death of Dr. J. D. Unwin, anthropologist and head of Cambridge House, the University social settlement in south London, which took place after an operation at the age of forty years.
Unwin died before fully developing his theory of ‘the sexual foundations of a new society,’ but the incomplete results were published in another book, ‘Hopousia,’ with an introduction by Aldous Huxley.”
Hopousia: Or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1940).
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Family breakdown and Civilization decline
Pitirim Sorokin wrote of his own country’s revolution:
“During the first stage of the Revolution, its leaders deliberately attempted to destroy marriage and the family. Free love was glorified by the official ‘glass of water’ theory. If a person is thirsty, so went the Party line, it is immaterial what glass he uses when satisfying his thirst; it is equally unimportant how he satisfies his sex hunger. The legal distinction between marriage and casual sexual intercourse was abolished.
The Communist law spoke only of contracts between males and females for the satisfaction of their desires either for an indefinite or a definite period, a year, a month, a week, or even for a single night. One could marry and divorce as many times as desired. Husband and wife could obtain a divorce without the other being notified. It was not even necessary that marriage be registered. Bigamy and even polygamy were permissible under the new provisions … Premarital relations were praised and extramarital relations were considered normal.”
Dr. Pitirim Sorokin.
Within a few years, hordes of wild, homeless children became a menace to the Soviet Union.
Millions of lives, especially of young girls, were wrecked; divorces sky-rocketed, as did abortions. The hatreds and conflicts among polygamous and polyandrous mates rapidly mounted — and so did psychoneurosis.
The results were so appalling that the government was forced to reverse its policy. The propaganda of the ‘glass of water’ theory was declared to be counter-revolutionary, and its place was taken by official glorification of premarital chastity and of the sanctity of marriage …
Considering that the whole cycle occurred under a single regime, the experiment is highly informative. It clearly shows the destructive consequences of unlimited sexual freedom.’
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