Sex-education
a series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life
Many of the lectures printed in this volume have formed the basis of a series given at Teachers College, Columbia University, during the summer sessions of 1914 and 1915, and during the academic year 1914— 1915. Others were addressed to parents, to groups of men, to women's clubs, and to conferences on sex education. In order to avoid extensive repetition, there has been some combination and rearrangement of lectures that originally were ad- dressed to groups of people with widely different outlooks On sexual problems.
Several years ago the late Dr Prince A. Morrow announced that a volume dealing with many of the timely topics of sex education was to be prepared by the undersigned with the advice and criticism of a committee of the American Federation for Sex- Hygiene; but even before Dr. Morrow's death, it became evident that this plan was impracticable. Three members (Morrow, Balliet, Bigelow) of the original committee collaborated in a report presented at the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. Since that time the writer, working independently have found it desirable to reorganize completely the original outline announced by Dr Morrow.
Some contents:
I. THE MEANING, NEED, AND SCOPE OF SEX EDUCATION 1
1. Sex education and its relation to ex hygiene and social hygiene. 2. The misunderstanding of sex. 3. The need for sex instruction. 4. The scope of sex- education.
II. THE PROBLEMS FOR SEX-EDUCATION . . 28
5. Sex problems and the need for special knowledge. 6. First problem: Personal sex hygiene. 7. Second problem: Social diseases. 8. Third problem: Social evil. 9. Fourth problem: Illegitimacy. 10. Fifth problem: Sexual morality. 11. Sixth problem: Sexual vulgarity. 12. Seventh problem: Marriage. 13. Eighth Problem: Eugenics.
14. Summary.
14. Summary.
III. ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL ATTACK ON
THE SEX PROBLEMS 90
15. The task of sex education. 16.
The aims of sex education. 17. The aims as the basis of organized sex- instruction.
The aims of sex education. 17. The aims as the basis of organized sex- instruction.
IV. THE TEACHER OF SEX-KNOWLEDGE . . 108
18. Who should give sex instruction?
19. The child's first teachers of sex- knowledge. 20. Selecting teachers for
19. The child's first teachers of sex- knowledge. 20. Selecting teachers for
class instruction. 21. Certain undesirable teachers for special hygienic and ethical instruction.
V. BOOKS AS TEACHERS CONCERNING SEX AND LIFE 121
22. Value and danger of special sex books for young people. 23. General literature and sex problems. 24. Dangers in the literature on sexual abnormality.
VI. SEX INSTRUCTION FOR PRE-ADOLESCENT YEARS 133
25. Elementary instruction and influence. 26. Hygienic and educational treatment of unhealthful habits.
VII. SEX- INSTRUCTION FOR EARLY ADOLESCENT YEARS 146
27. The biological foundations. 28.
Scientific facts for boys. 29. Scientific facts for girls.
Scientific facts for boys. 29. Scientific facts for girls.
VIII. SPECIAL SEX-INSTRUCTION FOR ADOLESCENT BOYS AND YOUNG MEN .... 156
30. Developing attitude towards womanhood. 31. Developing ideas of love and marriage. 32. Reasons for pre-marital continence. 33. Essential knowledge concerning prostitution. 34. Need of refinement of men. 35. Dancing as a sex problem for men. 36. Dress of women as a sex problem for men. 37.
The problem of self-control for young men.38. The mental side of a young man's
sexual life.
The problem of self-control for young men.38. The mental side of a young man's
sexual life.
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