CHILD LIFE AND SEX HYGIENE A Remarkable Message By OTTERBEIN O. SMITH, D. D. Lecturer on Modern Psychics and Active Pastor Published by request of a section of the Women’s Club of Pierre, So. Dak., before whom the address was originally given COPYRIGHTED 1912 By Otterbein O. Smith TO MY MOTHER _Who, Through the Upfloodings of a Pure Mother Heart, Kissed Nobleness and Courage Into the Heart of Her Boy, This Book Is Dedicated._ PRESS OF THE MONARCH PRINTING CO. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA A FOREWORD Sending this little book out into the world is like sending out one of my children, for as they came from my heart, so has it. My heart has ached for my children as it has been necessary for them to go out and meet the buffetings of an unsympathetic world and so aches it for this little fledgling. But still I have a hope that the world will not be wholly unkind to it and that it will find its place and accomplish that which has been hoped for it, in helping human lives and adding to the sum of purity in the world. This little message grew out of an address made before a section of the Women’s Club of the city and their request to have it published. I have not changed the literary style from that of public address, thinking that perhaps it would be more effective in that form. You will doubtless find some striking and unusual statements in this message, but all I ask is that you will give it careful thought and that you will remember that these statements have been made after twenty years of careful study of the mysteries of life and that they are backed up by the best of physical and psychic facts. I have not dared to go into detailed explanation for want of space and so may bring down on my head storms that I might easily dissipate if I were but in touch with the storm maker. But let the storms come if they must, I will rejoice amidst them all if only I can awaken the parenthood of this land to the dangers to which their children are exposed. Yours for purity, OTTERBEIN OSCAR SMITH. Child Life and Sex Hygiene SEX HYGIENE This word hygiene has its root in the word Hygeia. Hygeia was the daughter of one of the gods of the Classic Mythology, and was the goddess of health. Sex hygiene is then, sex health, or sex normality.