ENT BOYS AND YOUNG MEN 156

Sec. 30. Developing attitude towards womanhood. Sec. 31.
Developing ideals of love and marriage. Sec. 32. Reasons for
pre-marital continence. Sec. 33. Essential knowledge
concerning prostitution. Sec. 34. Need of refinement of men.
Sec. 35. Dancing as a sex problem for men. Sec. 36. Dress of women
as a sex problem for men. Sec. 37. The problem of self-control
for young men. Sec. 38. The mental side of a young man's
sexual life.

IX. SPECIAL INSTRUCTION FOR MATURING YOUNG WOMEN 184

Sec. 39. The young woman's attitude towards manhood. Sec. 40. The
young woman's attitude towards love and marriage. Sec. 41.
Reasons for pre-marital continence of young women. Sec. 42.
Need of optimistic and aesthetic views of sex by women.
Sec. 43. Other problems for young women.

X. CRITICISMS OF SEX-EDUCATION 203

Sec. 44. A plea for reticence--Agnes Repplier. Sec. 45. A plea
for religious approach--Cosmo Hamilton. Sec. 46. The conflict
between sex-hygiene and sex-ethics--Richard Cabot Sec. 47. The
arrogance of the advocates of sex-education--William H.
Maxwell. Sec. 48. Lubricity in education--W.H. Taft. Sec. 49.
Conclusions from the criticisms of sex-education.

XI. THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF THE SEX-EDUCATION MOVEMENT 227

Sec. 50. The American movement. Sec. 51. Important steps. Sec. 52.
The future of the larger sex-education.

XII. SOME BOOKS FOR SEX-EDUCATION 238

INDEX 249

I

THE MEANING, NEED, AND SCOPE OF SEX-EDUCATION

Sec. 1. _Sex-education and Its Relation to Sex-hygiene and Social Hygiene_

[Sidenote: Definition of sex-education.]

Sex-education in its largest sense includes all scientific, ethical,
social, and religious instruction and influence which directly and
indirectly may help young people prepare to solve for themselves the
problems of sex that inevitably come in some form into the life of
every normal human individual. Note the carefully guarded phrase "help
young people prepare to solve for themselves the problems of sex", for,
like education in general, special sex-education cannot possibly do
more than help the individual prepare to face the problems of life.

[Sidenote: More than