SEX HYGIENE.
Says the San Francisco ''Argonaut" : "A Catholic priest in Chicago says that the teaching of sex hygiene in the public schools will have the effect of driving large numbers of children into the Catholic institutions, where this particular nastiness is rightly believed to be poison. "Every parent and every teacher," he says, "should | >vake up and know that the observe | ance of modesty and the retention of the sense of shame,are the best safeguards \of chastity." The Catholic priest has the rights of .it. Parents who wish that their children"shall avoid corruption will do well to keep them away from schools that have added te pollution of the young to the official curriculum. Apart from all theological considerations,- it i& unquestionably true that the nearly invariable product of the Catholic school is mens sana in corpore sana. Arid it is in pleasing contradistinction to the more "advanced" schools of the day where all those things are taught that ought not to be taught, and all those things that ought to be taught are left untaught. Whether a knowledge of .sex hygiene will be a, satisfactory substitute for writing, reading and arithmetic remains to be seen."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 October 1913, Page 4
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197SEX HYGIENE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 October 1913, Page 4
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