Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1911 — Eliot For Sex Frankness. [ARTICLE]

Eliot For Sex Frankness.

Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university, is one of those who believe that sex hygiene should be taught in the public schools. “The only alternative for education in sex hygiene.” he declared in a paper read recently by Dr. Luther H. Gulick to the American School Hygiene association, “is the prolongation of the present awful wrongs and woes in the very jitals of civilization.” Dr. Eliot believes that to prevent the disasters to the young that arise from Ignorance systematic instruction should be given in the, processes of reproduction and * the consequences that follow violations of the laws of nature. “The policy of science has failed everywhere,” he urged. “If any one protests that this educational process will abolish innocence and make matter of common talk the tenderest and most intimate concerns in human life let him consider that virtue and not innocence Is manifestly God’s object and end for humanity.**