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During the past twenty-five years, increasing stress has been placed upon the value of wisely given sex information. Parents have been advised to answer the small child's questions frankly. The anticipation has been that in this way the child will not only gain factual knowledge but will also, in adulthood, accept his own sexuality rather than be frightened and confused by it. It is to be hoped that in the near future a critical study will be made of the end results of early sex education. Clinically, it is interesting to observe how often a child who was given adequate sex information in early childhood later has "forgotten" much of it. If the facts have not been forgotten and even if they have been supplemented by studies in physiology and biology, the acceptance of the adult sexual role does not seem to be markedly facilitated. Frigidity and impotence continue to present a problem to many individuals. This is not surprising when one considers the fundamental difficulties involved in accepting sexuality. As one adolescent expressed it, "It is not the physiology and anatomy that we don't understand but rather our feelings. We want to know what they mean and what to do about them." This chapter describes ways to talk to adolescents about sex. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)