MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 276, 18 June 1918, Page 2

MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE.

I bc* urgent necessity of immediately beginning sex education on right lines is my reason for drawing attention to two works —one for parents, the other for those who desire to study the question more thoroughly. “Education for Life” is a paper by Edith Howes pad before the Soc ial Hygiene Soc r ty, C hristchurch. This paper gives .in historical explanation of what has been called the conspiracy of silence, indicates the changing ideals that accompany the evolution of human nature, the injury to parent and child until that conspiracy is broken; then, in the way with which we are familiar in Edith Howes’ well-known hooks, the manner of teaching the facts of life is indicated in a way that all may understand. “The Teaching of S* x Hygiene” is a reprint of three public lectures given in Sydney, and also of a conference arranged by the Workers’ Educational Association. This Conference wi- attended by representatives of social and philanthropic movements, of the various churches, of educationists from the Kindergarten to the University, of most of the trades, of doctors, nurses, W.E.A. students, and of the Women’s Soc ieties. Among the subjects dealt with are: 1. “The Massacre of the* Innocents” (Professor Welsh). 2. “Teaching of Sex Hygiene to Children and Teachers” (G. SaviM Willis). 3. “Preventive Training for Young Children in Relatios to Sex Control” 1 (Zoe Benjamin).

4- “Sex Kduration for Hoys” (Dr. J. Smyth). 5. “Sex Kducation for Adolescent Girls.” 6. '“How the C hun lies Could Cooperate.” 7. “How Much should be Taught to Children ?” 8. “Sex Irregularities of Childhood and Youth.” <>. “Prostitution,” etc. Discussions and questions follow the papers. 1 have lectures marked 1,2, 3,4, printed separately, 4id posted. A few copes of the whole book are on order, 3s 4d posted. “Kducation for Life,,” by Kdith Howes,’ posted or 2s (>d per dozen. —I ,un, etc., mary McCarthy, Supt. Moral and Social Hygiene, N.Z.W.C.T.U.