Child Life and Sex Hygiene: A Remarkable MessageSmith, Otterbein Oscar
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Child Life and Sex Hygiene: A Remarkable Message
Smith, Otterbein Oscar
Sexual ethics
With these glorious possibilities and purposes of this nerve center
before us, what a horrid nightmare it is for anyone to think, as some
people do, that this sex nerve center is the organ of humiliation and
shame and is therefore not a proper subject of conversation in polite
society. Nothing can be farther from the truth than this.
THE BEAUTY IMPULSES
Stop for a moment and think; from whence come the beautiful impulses,
or thoughts OF HOME, MOTHERHOOD, FATHERHOOD, LOVE FOR AND PROTECTION
OF CHILDREN, THE ART OF HOMEBUILDING AND HOME ADORNMENT? Come they not
from this very nerve center? Destroy this nerve center in any young
child and its life will be void of all these glorious impulses.
In place then of this nerve center, or sex organ, being a blushing,
shame-faced spirit that mutins in the life of humanity, it is _the
producer of all highest physical beauty both in the human organism and
in its surroundings_.
THE MIND BRAIN AND THE BODY BRAIN
May I ask how many of you have ever told your boys and girls this? Not
one of you, because you never knew it before. You have always thought
that our sense of beauty originated in the nerve center, which we call
the brain. The mind of man directs, unifies and co-ordinates and should
control these beauty impulses as they flood out into the being, but
they have their origin in the sex nerve center.
THIS ORGAN, OR NERVE CENTER, IS THE BRAIN OF THE PURELY PHYSICAL LIFE,
AS TRULY AS THE GRAY MATTER, OR NERVE CENTER AT THE UPPER END OF THE
SPINE, which we call the brain, IS THE BRAIN OF THE EGO, OR INNER LIFE.
Through the sex organ, or nerve center, the physical life in its rarest
and most delicate beauty finds expression, as through the brain the
inner life, or ego, expresses itself in thought and will.
Do you ask for proof of this somewhat remarkable statement? Let me
answer by asking a question. When are the birds most beautiful in
plumage and sweetest in song? AT MATING TIME. _It cannot be said that
this is due to intellect, but upon the other hand it is the natural
upflooding of the beauty impulses from the physical brain, or sex nerve
center._
We cannot here enter into the deeper psychological question involved
in this somewhat unusual statement, that the sex nerve center is the
physical brain, but it must be evident to any thoughtful person that
the statement is not far out of the way, as is evidenced in its beauty
building power in the lives of the birds. There is an intelligence or
consciousness in this physical brain, but it is not a self-conscious
intelligence, such as functions through the brain at the upper end of
the spine.
Because of the above facts and many others that might be presented, we
feel justified in the statements we have made above.
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