Vegetarianism is not an end in itself, but a first step toward an individual's living in harmony with himself and the world. We seem to have liberated ourselves from the foolish and primitive shackles of sexual restraint. Yet serious problems have caught up with our progressive march toward newer and stranger sexual practices. A plague of sexually transmitted disease claims ever-increasing victims. Now an estimated 12 million adults and 1 million infants are infected and the expectations for the year 2000 are an estimated total of 30-40 million.
Promiscuity also generates detrimental social effects.
Unwanted children that have escaped the gauntlet of birth control and the annual 50 million abortions are often raised with insufficient affection and guidance, and therefore easily fall prey to bad association. City streets and jails abound with these youngsters. And it all began with some sexually preoccupied parents. Perhaps we have the wrong idea about the purpose of sex. But we try to avoid nature's arrangement with contraceptives and abortions and thus spoil society.