ABSTRACT
Sexual Education is sometimes asserted that the enlightenment of children in sexual matters necessarily involves one of two evil results; either they become affected throughout life with an excessive erotic excitability, or else there is instilled into their minds an anxious fear of sex. Sexual timidity is a better safeguard against licence than a detailed knowledge of sexual matters. It is, however, an arbitrary assumption that the aim of sexual enlightenment is to impart to children a detailed knowledge of sex. In this chapters, the authors are in truth between Scylla and Charybdis. School teachers lack the necessary equipment of knowledge, nor can this be acquired in a few months. On the other hand they are not in a position to give unprejudiced instruction. To conclude, sexual enlightenment must be effected along the general lines here indicated, but the choice of the detailed means is a matter on which it is impossible to lay down general rules.
