Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) SEX AVOIDED SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN PLAIN ENGLISH _By_ HENRY STANTON [Illustration] SOCIAL CULTURE PUBLICATIONS 151 FIFTH AVENUE . NEW YORK Copyright, 1922 SOCIAL CULTURE PUBLICATIONS MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE I. SEX 5 II. THE TRANSITION FROM CELL TO HUMAN BEING 12 III. SEX IN MALE CHILDHOOD 20 IV. SEX IN FEMALE CHILDHOOD 26 V. SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT MALE 30 VI. SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT FEMALE 35 VII. SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION (THE HUSBAND) 43 VIII. SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION (THE WIFE) 45 IX. SEX DISEASES 53 X. LOVE AND SEX 57 CHAPTER I SEX The happiness of all human beings, men and women, depends largely on their rational solution of the sexual problem. Sex and the part it plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case of animals sex plays a simpler and less complex role. It is a purely natural and instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of the species. It is not complicated by the many incidental phenomena which result, in man's case, from psychologic, economic, moral and religious causes. Climate, social conditions, individual modes of life and work, alcohol, wealth and poverty, and other factors affect sexual activity in human beings. Sexual love, which is practically unknown to the animals, is a special development of the sex urge in the human soul. The deeper purpose of the sex function in human beings, likewise, is procreation, the reproduction of species. The average man, woman and child should know the essential sex facts in order to be able to deal with the sex problems of life. Of late years there has been a greater diffusion of such knowledge. To a large extent, however, children and adolescents are still taught to look on all that pertains to sex as something shameful and immodest, something not to be discussed. Sex is an "Avoided Subject."