SEX EDUCATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 4

SEX EDUCATION

LECTURE BY DR. J. P. HASTINGS

An address was recently delivered by Dr. J. P. Hastings to the Auckland Women’s Branch of the Labour Party om K “Sex Education for the Young.” The lecturer pointed out the increasing need for instruction on this important subject, and stressed the fact that the ideal age for lessons on the facts of life was from three years upward, when the child first began to inquire as to its origin and existence. The young should grow up with the idea that in caring for their bodies they were preparing for perfect marriage, having for its main object the production of a better race. Ignorance was the cause of unhappiness. Divorce and matrimonial unrest were due to lack of proper preparation for marriage. Present-day freedom and the intermingling of the sexes, added to old-fashioned ignorance and fear of sex, was causing havoc among our young people. The subconscious mind of the child received impressions which lasted through life, and the actions and thoughts of the adult were the outcome of what he saw and thought as a child. At the conclusion of the address a discuss-ion took place. Dr. Hastings was thanked by the president. Mrs. L. Harrison, for his instructive ad- j dress.