Excerpt from The Education of the Young in Sex Hygiene: A Textbook for Parents and Teachers With a view to its serving as a stepping-stone to more thorough methods for the future, this is offered as a text-book for the instruc tion of parents and teachers. Even the two chapters (x and XI) for the boy and girl are designed rather to suggest the manner of approach, than for actual placing in the hands of young people. That for Girls has, however, already been used extensively in pamphlet form among young girls, and, as its brief introductory note will show, has won their approval. In the same manner, if desired, the Talk with Boys may be placed without fear of harm in the hands of the future fathers at the age of fourteen. It is my conviction and has been my experience that both boys and girls are taught to better advantage by word of mouth and largely by object demonstration, than by the printed page, and that in this fashion the intended lessons are more surely learned. Sex hygiene, I take it, means sex health obtained and insured through the prevention of ignorance regarding the normal In order to teach the normal, much that is unfortu nate and repelling in the abnormal must be known by the parent teacher. Hence, I have attempted to show, and, I think. Have fully established the need of instruction in the chapters that deal with_ the social conditions that have led up to the countrywide interest in sex hygiene as a vitally important subject for home and school teaching. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.