Civic improvement; Urban women; Women in public life
The Committee on Social Hygiene is fully cognizant of the delicate
nature of the task before it, and of the necessity of moving slowly,
taking each step in accordance with a well-considered plan, rather
than of attempting to cover too much ground at the risk of making
mistakes. Nevertheless, it is fully convinced that the time has come
for speaking frankly in regard to sex matters and dealing honestly
with a problem which concerns every one of us. In coöperation with
the Public Health Education Committee of the American Medical
Association, we have arranged four lectures on different aspects of
sex education, to be given at the League. The speakers will be: Dr.
Edith Spaulding, of Sherburne Reformatory; Dr. Rachel Yarros, of
Chicago; Dr. Edith Hale Swift, of Boston; Dr. Kate Campbell Mead, of
Middletown, Connecticut.
All over the country we hear of meetings of women to discuss in a sane
and dispassionate way the problem of education in sex hygiene. For
example, two methods of teaching sex hygiene, the biological and the
physiological, and their adaptation to the needs of different groups,
were the subject of three conferences held last spring (1914) by the
Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, New York. Dr. Mary Sutton
Macy presented the physiological and Nellie M. Smith the biological
aspect. The third talk on the adaptability of these two methods to
different social groups was given by Harriet McDaniel.
“The Matter and Methods of Sex Education Other Than Instruction in
Schools” was discussed at a later meeting. The main speakers were Dr.
Eugene LaF. Swain, Nellie W. Smith, Laura B. Garrett and Mabel M. Irwin.
The discussion was started by Dr. Ira S. Wile, Dr. Rosalie S. Morton,
Dr. Mary Sutton Macy and Harriet E. McDaniel.
Dr. Rosalie Morton, of New York, speaking at the Sixth Triennial
Convention of the Council of Jewish Women, on this subject, said:
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