education is to conform the child's reason to that of the community. But if there is no corresponding reform in the community, by training the child to reason you are merely training him to see the absurdity of opinions and customs consecrated by the seal of sacred authority, public or legislative, and you are inspiring him with contempt of them."
10 We cannot too often meditate on these wise words.
It is useless to attempt to introduce sexual hygiene as a subject apart, and in some respects it may be dangerous.
When we touch sex we are touching sensitive fibres which thrill through the whole of our social organism, just as the touch of love thrills through the whole of the bodily organism. Any vital reform here, any true introduction of sexual hygiene to replace our traditional policy of confused silence, affects the whole of life or it affects nothing.
It will modify our social conventions, enter our family life, transform our moral outlook, perhaps re-inspire our religion and our philosophy.