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7. If there is one truth concerning s.e.x education that needs emphasis above all others, it is that all plans for meeting the social emergency must strengthen the control of moral and spiritual law over s.e.x impulses; otherwise s.e.x education may be antagonistic not only to physical health, but as well to the highest development of personality and to the progressive evolution of human society.

FOOTNOTES:

[61] The best expression of the consensus of opinion of those who should know most about the subject is the _Report of the Special Committee on the Matter and Methods of s.e.x Education_ issued by the American Federation for s.e.x Hygiene, New York, December, 1912.

[62] _s.e.x Education_, by Ira S. Wile, M.S., M.D. (New York, 1912), aims to a.s.sist parents to banish the difficulties and to suggest a course of instruction. It is a brief and wholly admirable treatise.

[63] _Progress_, the second annual report of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society, gives some account of the most extensive public education that has been conducted in this country.

[64] The Exhibit of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society has been seen by over 50,000 people, at a total cost of less than two cents for each person.

[65] Especially valuable are the two volumes by Abraham Flexner, written for the Bureau of Social Hygiene. See List of References.

[66] See _American Youth_, New York, April, 1913 ("s.e.x Education Number").

An article by George W. Hinckley tells of the ideal way in which he gives individual instruction to his boys at Good Will Farm, Hinckley, Maine.

[67] "s.e.x-instruction as a Phase of Social Education," in _Religious Education_, 1913, by Maurice A. Bigelow, is one of the best articles on this subject.

[68] F.W. Foerster, _Marriage and the s.e.x Problem._ No book on this subject has reached a higher plane of idealism. At the same time it is scientifically sound.

LIST OF REFERENCES

CHAPTERS I, II

GENERAL SURVEY

_Prepared by Maida Rossiter, Librarian, Reed College_

Addams, Jane. _A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil._ New York, 1912.

American Federation for s.e.x Hygiene. Report of the s.e.x Education Sessions of the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene. New York, 1913.

American Medical a.s.sociation. _Nostrums and Quackery._ Chicago.

Bloch, Iwan. _s.e.xual Life of our Time in its Relation to Modern Civilization_; tr. by Eden Paul. St. Louis, 1911.

Brieux, Eugene. _Damaged Goods._ In his _Three Plays._ New York, 1911.

Commonwealth Club of California. _The Red Plague._ Commonwealth Club of California. _Transactions_, vol. VI, no. 1, May, 1911; vol. VIII, no. 7, August, 1913.

Dealey, J.Q. _The Family in its Sociological Aspects._ Boston, 1912.

Ellis, Havelock. _Task of Social Hygiene._ Boston, 1912.

Flexner, A. _Prost.i.tution in Western Europe._ New York, 1913. Bureau of Social Hygiene Publications.

---- _Prost.i.tution in the United States._ (In preparation.) Bureau of Social Hygiene Publications.

Foerster, F.W. _Marriage and the s.e.x Problem_; tr. by Meyrick Booth. New York, 1912.

Forel, August. _s.e.xual Question_; tr. by C.F. Marshall. New York, 1908.

Fosd.i.c.k, R.D. _European Police Systems._ New York 1913.

Kneeland, G.J. _Commercialized Prost.i.tution in New York City._ New York, 1913. Bureau of Social Hygiene Publications.

Morrow, P.A. _Social Diseases and Marriage._ New York 1904.

Northcote, Hugh. _Christianity and s.e.x Problems._ Philadelphia, 1906.

Seligman, E.R.A., ed. _Social Evil._ Ed. 2, rev. New York, 1912.

Sisson, E.O. _Educational Emergency._ Atlantic Monthly, vol. 106, pp.

54-63, July, 1910.

Thomson, J.A., _and_ Geddes, P. _Problem of s.e.x._ New York, 1912.

Westermarck, Edward. _History of Human Marriage._ New York, 1903.

Wilson, R.N. _American Boy and the Social Evil._ Philadelphia, 1905.

Zenner, Philip. _Education in s.e.xual Physiology and Hygiene._ Cincinnati, 1910.

CHAPTER III

PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

_Reproduction_

Exner, M.J. _The Physician's Answer._ New York, 1913.

Howell, W.H. _Textbook of Physiology._ Ed. 4. Philadelphia, 1911.

Landois, Leonard. _Textbook of Human Physiology._ Ed. 10. Philadelphia, 1904.

Marshall, F.H.A. _Physiology of Reproduction._ New York, 1910.