ic Coast Federation for Sex-Hygiene,
changed to Pacific Coast Social Hygiene Association in June, 1914.

July, 1914. The National Education Association, at Minneapolis,
adopted the following resolutions in line with the latest
principles of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis and
the American Social Hygiene Association:

"The Association, re-affirming its belief in the constructive
value of education in sex-hygiene, directs attention to the
grave dangers, ethical and social, arising out of a sex
consciousness stimulated by undue emphasis upon sex problems
and relations. The situation is so serious as to render
neglect hazardous. The Association urges upon all parents the
obvious duty of parental care and instruction in such matters
and directs attention to the mistake of leaving such problems
exclusively to the school. The Association believes that
sex-hygiene should be approached in the public schools
conservatively under the direction of persons qualified by
scientific training and teaching experience in order to
assure a safe moral point of view. The Association,
therefore, recommends that institutions preparing teachers
give attention to such subjects as would qualify for
instruction in the general field of morals as well as in the
particular field of sex-hygiene."

Sec. 52. _The Future of the Larger Sex-education_

[Sidenote: Public has lost interest in sensationalism.]

I hear many questions as to the probable future of sex-education. I am
asked: "Is it moribund?" "Is it a disappearing fad?" "Has not the high
tide of interest passed?" No doubt such questions are inspired by the
oft-repeated statement that public interest in sexual questions has
waned decidedly in the last few years. This is true, and it is a most
fortunate indication of approaching sanity. The public interest in the
last decade has been most deplorable, because it has centered in the
abnormal and sensational aspects of sex. Authors have vied with each
other in presenting the most lurid cases of social diseases, white
slavery, sexual perversions, and every other available aspect of sexual
degeneracy. Of course, the reading public was bound to grow tired of
this, just as it wearies of a horrible murder trial or of a
sensational divorce case. It is certainly true that there is a marked
decline of general interest