Sex Hygiene for the Male and What to Say to the Boy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II METHODS OF INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS Hygiene in its broadest sense should receive considerable attention in all schools, public and private. The course of instruction must vary with conditions. Advanced pupils may be taught along much broader lines than is wise in lower grades. Young children should be taught the simpler rules of hygiene and enough sex-biology?beginning with plant life?to enable them to accept later instruction in human sex life as a matter of course. No arbitrary course, it seems to me, can be prescribed. Much must be left to the discretion and intelligence of the teacher. Teachers in this department should be specially trained. When practicable these teachers in the high schools and colleges should, in my opinion, be physicians, and their teaching should be wholly restricted to hygiene and such matters as legitimately pertain to the subject. Pupils should be taught sufficient elementary pathology to enable them to comprehend the danger of infection with venereal diseaseand the urgent necessity of thorough treatment of those who are so unfortunate as to become infected. They should also be impressed with the dangers attendant upon quackery and the reading of quack literature and advertisements. The woman physician has a distinct and valuable sphere in the education of youth. As a concession to delicacy girl pupils should be taught sex matters by one of their own sex. Young lads, too, have feelings of delicacy which are best conserved by instruction in sexual matters by one of their own sex. Boys and girls who are too young to possess this sense of delicacy are too young to be instructed at all in the higher branches of such subjects. Teachers, lecturers and parents should supplement their instruction and counsel of boy...