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10, 1943.
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Thirty Years Experience in the U.S.A. Points to Increased Vice Public Discussion Among Youth Leads to Prurience Baneful Effect of Magazines and Movies . . surely will not tend to improve morals of the public. Prurient Curiosity Would Be Induced. The subject of sex instruction in schools was a live one for many months in 1913, at a time when Socialist and anti-Catholic organs counted jointly a million circulation exceeding four copies. Governor Dunne, of Illinois, expressed his disapproval in a letter he addressed in December, 1913, to President James, of the University of Illinois: I would not permit my young daughters to be sent to either a pubYork Back in July, 1913, the New lic or private school where sex hy"Times- spoke as follows anent the ac giene is discussed in public. I hon'ion of the then Chicago Board of Eduestly fear that if sex hygiene be cation, which decided to introduce sex taught in schools, and young boys instruction in that city's schools and girls in the open classrooms are against the protest of parents. made aware of things which may be right. are We believe the citizens taught in the line of sex hygiene, it take cannot schools the in Lectures probably will create in their young the place of home training in this matminds a prurient curiosity which will Obviously Chicagck citizens are ter induce, rather than suppress, immorthe of importance the now awake to ality and unchastity. subject, however, and we may hope Stress the Beauty of Clean Living. that more of them will realise their Every widely known Christian auduty to their children hereafter and Protestant-who thority-Catholic No worse plan could be devised to the subject of sex inset the rising generation on the right has written on that it should not be path than to make the facts of sex hy- struction, holds groups in the classgiene subjects of talk among school- taught before what children should know boys and schoolgirls The recent wide- room; that taught in five minutes by ly published revelations touching the could be children's spiritual adtraffic in vice have already had a de- parents, or the authorities are in full These visers. moralising effect which helps to counknowledge of sex does teract any good results accomplished. agreement that to continence or to clean The barriers of polite reticence have not conduce they all agree Furthermore, been broken down and old-fashioned living. best way of preventing a sex folks, whose early education was not that the among adolescent youths defective, are frequently shocked by consciousness their minds kept far removthe turns of dinner -table conversation. is to havesex. Just as intemperance is from ed A sort of publicity has been given to by inculcating temperance, evil subjects and inherited disease, promoted is best prevented by inwhich, while it assuredly lowers the so unchastity the beauty of chastity. on tone of social intercourse, quite as struction The alarming increase in immorality
in this country has led to the suggestion that sex instruction should be made a compulsory subject on the curBut, as the riculum of our schools. following article in "The Sunday Visitor" explains, experience over nearly thirty years in the United States has convinced observers that the knowledge conveyed by such means, instead of preventing excesses, only gives a new impetus to their commission.
Lack of Knowledge Not Responsible. If youths to -day are inordinately sex -conscious it is not because they have lacked knowledge, but because they have been feeding their imaginations on the sex stories with which hundreds of magazines, circulated by the millions every month, are replete. If his "As man thinks so is he." reading leads him to think more about sex than about anything else, day after day, he will be disposed to feed the If, on appetite he has cultivated. the other hand, he is encouraged to divert he will think and act cleanly
his mind from sex, and feed it with reading that tends to strengthen his will and keep his heart pure. The movies, the current magazines, including the comics which little children read, tend to minimise chastity and to create a pagan state of mind, Sexy magazines would go out of existence if they were not patronised, and movies would become cleaner if the
public refused to attend the bold type. Parents should have the right attitude towards sex if they are to be guides even for their own children in this day when every other influence is misguiding them.
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