The teaching of sex hygiene to boys.

Citation

Thomson, J. A. (1922). The teaching of sex hygiene to boys. In Anonymous, The new educators library. Experimental psychology and child study (pp. 119-122). London, Great Britain: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/13550-019

Abstract

This treatment on the teaching of sex hygiene to boys concludes with a quotation from the volume on Sex: "Whether the sex-instruction is direct or indirect, through hygiene or through nature study; whether it is given by the parent or by the head of the school, by the science teacher or by lending booklets--care must be taken not to anticipate interest; not to excite; not to say what is untrue; not to teach what will have to be unlearned afterwards; not to make false mysteries (such as dusting a stigma with a pollen laden feather might dispel); not to deal with the pathological; not to frighten; not to pretend that men and women are angels; and, above all, not to say too much." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)