Hebb Says Sex Novels Serve Mental Hygiene

Despite claims of Boston censors that books containing "allusions to sexual intercourse are detrimental to the morals of the citizens of Boston," Donald O. Hebb, visiting lecturer on Clinical Psychology, said yesterday that "reading sexy novels may be useful for mental hygiene."

Hebb claimed that sex education in the normal home is bad. Parents are leery of broaching the subject to their adolescent children. Reading such novels may at least prevent the children's picking up the wrong ideas on the street.