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CONVINCED of the need for sex-instruction, Dr. Galloway seeks to give parents and teachers some idea of the biological and ethical principles which should underlie it, and to suggest the spirit in which it should be attempted. He has sympathy with endeavouring by knowledge to avoid disaster, but he sees positive promise in trying to use the sex impulses and instincts educatively. He seeks to present the facts of sex in their broad biological and evolutionary setting, and the lines of instruction suggested seem to us to be shrewd and wise. He would in a graduated and differential way explain to young people that if their sex-development goes awry, the results will show themselves in reducing the efficiency of body and mind. “The purpose of sex-knowledge is to enable you to let yourself develop normally without giving the matter any unnecessary thought.” But the power of control over impulses requires strengthening even in the strongest, and the author writes in an experienced, practical way of the ideas and ideals, habits and interrelations that make it less difficult to “keep the heart with all diligence.”
Biology of Sex for Parents and Teachers.
By Dr. T. W. Galloway. Pp. 128. (London: D. C. Heath and Co., n.d.) Price 2s. net.
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Biology of Sex for Parents and Teachers . Nature 102, 183 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102183a0
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