Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 31 | Sex Education in High Schools Urged

SEX EDUCATION TION IN HIGH HIGH SCHOOLS LS IS URGED S Speaker r at Meeting of ReAd Religious Religious Re- Re Ad- Ad Association ances New Thought STATISTICS j ARE CITED S Sa Says ys s Children Receive I- I In In- nt n- n X t Six Years Years' Too Late 4 J ClU CHICAGO CAG 0 March 4 k A. A demand for tor forsea torINa sea INa education In high schools has hag been made by I Dr r. r M. M J. J Exner r of ot New Tork York at the session of ot the Religious Education Education Edu Edu- cation catton association Dr Exner said he had conducted a a. study of ot the sex question by an In Interrogation Interrogation interrogation In- In of ot 1000 college students and had found that per cent had received their first striking and permanent permanent permanent per per- manent Impressions about sex before the thirteenth year rear Sex education at high school Is necessary necessary ne-c- ne essary he said for the average high school boy possesses a more or less abnormal sex consciousness If It a a. normal sex consciousness Is to be pre- pre and the sex Instinct directed Into right channels wise education In matters of ot sex must begin in much earlier years years Early Earty Sex Stimulation Of the men who admitted having nl at some lome time Indulged In some form torm oi ot of sexual practice per cent began before the age of 15 16 This Is due to the precocious stimulation of sex interest and the misdirection of ot the sex instinct through unfortunate sources of ot early Information and appeal Concerning the sources from which sex instruction had been re received re- re In early years per cent said they received their early impressions impressions dons from unwholesome sources sources mostly from older boys 79 per cent said these Impressions had aroused In them morbid curiosity distorted the whole sex question and led to unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate practices per cent said they had received some sex Instruction from responsible sources but commonly common common- ly they received the Instruction six years too late for tor the a safeguarding of their lives Only per cent re received re- re an any wholesome Instruction before before before be be- fore the they were 13 years of age Sex Knowledge Harmed Few Of those thosa Who had received some instruction in instruction In- In from responsible sources 90 per ce cent said that the instruction had made a a. distinctly good Impression on their lives while only 12 per cent said the Influence was bad If It crude methods of sex Instruction can produce such good results what cannot be expected when seX sex education education education tion shall shan have become a d natural and systematic feature of the whole educational educational educational edu edu- scheme from the home or from the early school grades up to the theun un university ty conducted on sound pedagogic principles and with fine ethical appeal Y Thumped Pacifists were sharply criticised by bythe bythe the Rev George B. B Stewart president nt of Auburn Theological seminary New NewYork York Tork and president of the Religious Education association in his annual address He spoke on Religious Education Education Ed Ed- and the Present World Situation Situa Situa- tio tion The peace at any price men who are una unable le to tell where prudence prudenc ends and cowardice begins are doing more to disturb the equilibrium of ot moral things than the men who are fighting for tor their convictions he said Americas gravest peril in this crisis Mea lies in the fact th that t it Is reaping the fruits of sordidness timidity and greed while Europe is reaping those of or self Belf sacrifice heroism and devotion to high ideals The religious educators educators educators tors must teach the world that the unity of ot mankind Is not racial governmental governmental gov gov- Industrial or intellectual but spiritual At the morning session representatives representatives tives of the Roman Catholic Jewish and Protestant churches spoke on re religious religious re- re education from rom their several standpoints