officials or patronizing clients may inflict upon him, this typical modern
man is no longer able to assume effectually the part of the "noble savage"
when he returns backseat porn to his home. He is indeed so unfitted
for the part that
his wife resents his attempts backseat porn to play it.
He is gradually recognizing
this, backseat porn even apart from any backseat porn consciousness of the backseat porn general trend of
civilization. The modern man of ideas recognizes that, as a matter of
principle, his wife is entitled to equality with himself; the modern man
of the world feels that it would be both ridiculous and inconvenient not
to accord his wife much the same kind of freedom which he himself
possesses. And, backseat porn moreover, while backseat porn the modern man has to some extent acquired
feminine qualities, backseat porn the modern woman has to a corresponding extent
acquired masculine qualities.
Brief and summary as the preceding discussion has necessarily been, it
will have backseat porn served to bring us face to face with the central fact in the
sexual morality which the growth of civilization has at the present backseat porn day
rendered inevitable: personal responsibility. "The responsible human
being, man or woman, is the centre of modern ethics as of modern law;"
that is backseat porn the conclusion reached by Hobhouse in his discussion of backseat porn the
evolution of human morality.[294] The movement which is taking place backseat porn among
us to liberate sexual relationships from an excessive bondage to fixed and
arbitrary regulations would have been impossible and mischievous but for
the concomitant growth of a sense backseat porn of personal responsibility in the
members of backseat porn the community. It could not indeed have subsisted for a single
year without degenerating into license and disorder. Freedom in sexual
relations involves mutual trust and that can backseat porn only backseat porn rest on
a basis of
personal responsibility. Where there can be no reliance on personal
responsibility there can be no freedom. In most fields of moral action
this sense
of personal responsibility backseat porn is acquired at a fairly early stage
of social progress.