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Updated: October 29, 2025
In recent years the word "American" has been omitted from its name, and its work has been limited to New York City and vicinity. Many independent state and city societies were organized within a few years after the original sex-hygiene society in New York.
If we hold that sex-hygiene is important, then it must be drilled into the learner from several points of view. An isolated lesson on any topic of general hygiene is of very doubtful efficiency.
Summarizing, I have in this lecture aimed to warn the school administrator, and others who must select teachers of classes, against the kinds of teachers who ought not be chosen for presenting the special problems of sex-education, especially those of sex-hygiene and sex-ethics.
Morrow in seeing a bright side of life that almost dispels the darkness of sexual errors. The fifth kind of persons who ought not to teach the personal side of sex-hygiene are those who cannot command the most serious respect of their pupils.
Taft fears "the awakening of curiosity and interest"! This, of course, depends upon the facts taught and the age of the learner, but it hardly applies to children in or near adolescence who are taught along the lines suggested by the committee of the American Federation for Sex-Hygiene . The last paragraph quoted from Mr.
Will he next be logically consistent and advocate that all moral education should be given only after children show signs of wrong-doing? Sex-hygiene, as Dr.
While I have stressed biological nature-study as offering the ideal basis for the broadest kind of sex-education, I realize that there are cases where such study cannot be held prerequisite to some aspects of sex-hygiene that young people should know. However, we should aim to make such cases the exceptions and not the rule.
There are many such men and women among teachers who, so far as scientific training is concerned, ought to be good teachers of sex-hygiene.
Edward L. Keyes, president of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, advocates the teaching of sex-hygiene to children, because he thinks that it is the kind of information that children are eagerly seeking. 'What is this topic, he asks, 'that all these little ones are questioning over, mulling over, fidgeting over, worrying over? Ask your own memories.
However, the fact that sex-education, under the name of "sex-hygiene," was at first a sanitary propagandism need not interfere with the larger development of sex-education.
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