Civic improvement; Urban women; Women in public life
It is perhaps in the proper teaching of sex hygiene in the schools, to
working men and women, to college and other groups of young men and
women, and to foreigners, that women expect to accomplish most for the
elevation of moral standards and for the elimination of venereal
diseases.
In Minnesota the single standard of morals has been widely supported by
the club women and sex hygiene has been urged for the schools.
The Women’s Municipal League of Boston took the high position that
“realizing the physical misery which is resulting from ignorance in
regard to matters of sex, and the spiritual degradation following the
wrong conception of the high purpose of the sex function, to which must
be added the loss of efficiency in human ability, the Committee on
Social Hygiene of the League has set itself the task of awakening the
community to the dangers of a further continuance of this policy of
silence and of arousing the public conscience to do its duty; providing
sex education both for parents and for those whose parents cannot or
will not furnish it for them.” The League was, of course, very careful
to choose the members of this committee from those women whom it
believed to be qualified to lead in this work. From a recent report we
learn:
Because the time left us this season is so limited, we are making
our work experimental rather than exhaustive, with the idea of using
the results as a guide to the nature of the work to be undertaken
next year. We have, therefore, aimed to present the subject through
lecturers, to the following groups, selected as types: to a group of
mothers desirous of teaching their children in sex matters, and
eager to know how to go about it; to a group of teachers, who are
continually meeting sex problems among their pupils; to a group of
girls already in industry; to a group of boys organized in a club;
to a mixed group of men and women representing the present state of
public opinion, whose support is most necessary; and to
representatives from a committee from neighboring towns who wish to
take advantage of our machinery to start similar work at home.
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