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KNOWLEDGE, it has been said, is not virtue, but it is often on the way to it; and we agree with Dr. Herbert that the time has come for franker and fuller sex-instruction. In regard to sex, it cannot be said that ignorance is bliss; it often leads quite gratuitously to vice and to discoloured views of one of the great facts of life. As a medical man, Dr. Herbert is able to deal with 1 difficult subjects in a very matter-of-fact way, and while his book will shock a few righteous who need no repentance, and afford erotic stimulus to a few abnormal people to whom even the lilies of the field are “suggestive,” it will, we think, be welcomed by teachers, by parents, and by the quite naturally curious adolescents who find in all our highly evolved educational system nothing corresponding with the ancient initiation into the mysteries of sex, and very little corresponding with the ancient disciplines correlated with these.
An Introduction to the Physiology and Psychology of Sex.
By Dr. S. Herbert. Pp. xii + 136. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1917.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to the Physiology and Psychology of Sex. Nature 100, 163–164 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100163a0
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