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1. Many people, especially in youth, need hygienic knowledge
concerning sexual processes as they affect personal health.

2. There is an alarming amount of the dangerous social diseases
which are distributed chiefly by the sexual promiscuity or
immorality of men.

3. The uncontrolled sexual passions of men have led to enormous
development of organized and commercialized prostitution.

4. There are living to-day tens of thousands of unmarried mothers
and illegitimate children, the result of the common
irresponsibility of men and the ignorance of women.

5. There is need of more general following of a definite moral
standard regarding sex-relationships.

6. There is a prevailing unwholesome attitude of mind concerning
all sexual processes.

7. There is very general misunderstanding of sexual life as
related to healthy and happy marriage.

8. There is need of eugenic responsibility for sexual actions that
concern future generations.

To the propositions thus clearly stated all thoughtful students of
family needs in education will give assent. This is not the place for
specific treatment of prostitution and its effect upon the home, nor
is it the place for a detailed statement of methods of sex-education
and of social hygiene now advocated and beginning to show encouraging
results in use. The simple statement must be made that if, as Spencer
has said, one test of education is its ability to make men good
husbands and fathers, the element of sex-education must not be omitted
from the educative process. How or where the necessary information and
stimulus to truly social conduct may or should be given is matter for
another statement.

=Heroes Held Up for Admiration.=--One point, usually wholly ignored,
must have some mention here, and that is the effect upon the minds of
children and youth of types of social order that are taken for granted
as proper and right in the setting of heroes and even of heroines
commended to their example. We have taken our heroes from the past.
That is natural. It requires an atmosphere of distance to render clear
in outline the lives of the great and good. It may be that some
prophets are held at just value by those with whom they live; it is
almost never that great prophets are seen at their full stature, by
the common apprehension, in the time of which they are a part. This
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