""In 1963, a group of British Friends published, Towards a Quaker View of Sex'. This radical look at the sexual mores defined sin as "actions that involve the exploitation of the other person" and chastity as "the total absence of exploitation." They recognised that exploitation could occur within marriage as well as without, and called for "a morality that will enable people to find a constructive way through even the most difficult and unproductive situations."

Much of the publicity that surrounded its publication of Towards a Quaker View of Sex focused on what it had to say about homosexuality. "An act which expresses true affection between two individuals and gives pleasure to them both does not seem to us to be sinful by reason alone of the fact that it is homosexual," the authors wrote. Rather it should be judged by the same criterion as any heterosexual relationship.""