But the greater their liberty the stronger is the probability that their intimate relationship has the sanction of the physical, psychical, emotional and social conditions of healthy life. Wherever the sense of legal obligation comes in, it can be only at the expense of all that is tender and gentle and refined. If love between the sexes is right and proper under any circumstances, statute law can not change that rightfulness and propriety into wrongfulness and impropriety. But . . . such relations are wrong, to those who think they are wrong, though no bad consequences, physically, follow their violation of the commands of their own consciences. The law has nothing to do in affairs so private and delicate as these. . . .
Sexual intercourse is right or it is wrong.
If it is right, no act of legislation can make it wrong. If it is wrong, no act of legislation can make it right. If it is right, it is so without as well as within the place of legal marriage. If it is wrong, it is so within as, well as without that pale. The moral and physical considerations that make it wrong elsewhere than in the marriage bed, make it equally wrong there.