Sex Education for Child Growth

The facts, so clearly shown in the present volume, that the life of sex begins long before its obvious manifestations it puberty, and that the direction of its vagour and less differentiated habits in these earlier years is as important as its hygiene at the more noticeable climax of the early ‘teens, increase the teacher’s responsibility. Moreover, there is probably not a teacher of ten years’ standing who has not faced – or by ignorance neglected – some emergency where moderate insight into the laws whereby the vague instincts of sex are turned into healthy and unhealthy habits, and form right and wrong attitudes, could have rescued a boy or girl from years of wretched anxiety, or degraded conduct, or both. In this book, the origin and development, in childhood and youth, of the forces by which sex-responses are directed and misdirected; and to judge the wisdom of existing and proposed methods of preventing the degradation of a people’s sexual life.