Has this ignorance kept girls any purer? No. An appalling number of babies are born to ignorant girls every year. The crime is not only against the girl, but the baby, who comes into the world branded by the stigma of illegitimacy. And society blames the girl for not knowing how to take care of herself when all of the social energies have been united to maintain her ignorance. Perhaps the worst result of this sex-ignorance is prostitution. We wonder how many people know where the recruits to this profession are gathered. To be sure, there are some who enter it voluntarily, but they are few. The great majority of them are innocent girls, usually from small towns or country homes, who fall into the trap of some wily man, a trap not baited by the man, but by the girl’s ignorance. Since this has been the result of ignorance, is there a remedy? Yes, education. Almost everything is taught in our schools today, from how to add two and two to the theory of the fourth dimension. What is taught about sex? In general, nothing. In most of the grade schools there is a course in hygiene, but this assiduously avoids all mention of the most important hygiene of all—sex-hygiene. There are courses which teach the structure of the human body. They give long Latin names to each bone, from the skull to the great toe. But, when they reach the central sections of man’s anatomy, they hurriedly locate the stomach and intestines, and rush on to the thigh bone, leaving a great void between. The reasons for this are absurd. First there is the puritanical teaching that the body is vile, and that any conversation about it is evil. But they do not consider that head, shoulders, chest, thighs, feet are vile. Those portions of the body are acceptable, even to puritan thinking. Only the generative organs are banned. The second reason given for not teaching sex in the schools is that the imparting of scientific information on the subject will stimulate undesirable conduct on the part of the pupils. The so-called undesirable conduct is participated in anyhow, and it is rendered the more harmful through ignorance. The majority of intelligent persons today realize the error of these taboos, but, when asked to advocate sex-knowledge, they decline to support such a reform.