Places--What Are
the Consequences of Venereal Disease to the Boy?--Gonorrhea, or
Clap--Symptoms of Gonorrhea in the Male--Complications of
Gonorrhea--Syphilis, or the "Pox"--How Syphilis is
Acquired--Syphilis Attacks Every Organ in the Body--Not
Possible to Tell When Cured--The Chancre--Systematic or
Constitutional Symptoms--Mucous Patches and Ulcers--Syphilis of
the Blood Vessels and Lymphatic Glands--The Interior
Organs--Brain and Spinal Cord--The Nose, Eye, Ear, Throat--Hair
and Nails--What the Boy with Venereal Disease May Cause in
Others--The Infected Wife--A Girl's Fate When She
Marries--Young Wife Rendered Sterile--Young Wife Made to
Miscarry--Is the Husband to Blame?--Building the Man--Age of
Puberty--"Internal Secretion."

A WORD TO PARENTS.--Within recent times the subject of sex hygiene has
been freely discussed by members of the medical profession and through
them the general public has been made more or less acquainted with the
problem. It has therefore acquired a degree of genuine interest which
speaks well for the future of the eugenic ideal. Eugenics is based to a
very large extent upon the principles underlying sex hygiene.

As a result of this widespread interest and investigation, we have
discovered that the only method that promises actual progress, is to
talk plainly and to tell the actual truth. The day of the prude has
passed. To attempt to achieve results in the education of youth in sex
problems, without giving, facts, is wasted effort. To give facts we must
explain each problem so that its principles may be clearly understood
and its meaning grasped. To point out the duty of youth is not
sufficient. They must be shown why it is to their best interest to live
the clean life. In every department of education we are beginning to
appreciate that to achieve results it must be based upon the individual
equation. This is why we have found it necessary to assert that it is
the duty of parents to make sex hygiene a personal matter and to
acquaint their children with the facts relating to this problem. It has
been discovered, however, that a very large percentage of parents are
inadequately informed on these subjects, in fact they know practically
nothing about the actual facts which they are supposed to teach. I shall
try to tell the story in a way which every parent will understand.

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