Sexual harmony and the new eugenics / by Edmond Székely ; translated and edited by Purcell Weaver.

  • Székely, Edmond (Edmond Bordeaux)
Date:
1938
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Credit: Sexual harmony and the new eugenics / by Edmond Székely ; translated and edited by Purcell Weaver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. SEXUAL SYMPTOMS IN ADOLESCENCE For a number of reasons the problem of sex is one of the most important in human life. In the first place, it arises in the most important period of youth—with the age of adolescence. Secondly, from a physiological point of view, the activity of the glands, particularly those of sex, has an extraordinary influence on the human organism. It is also the problem least completely solved in our present social system, and is the least spoken of and the least discussed, though it is the most often in people's thoughts. The two main causes of the existing situation with regard to sex are ignorance and hypocrisy. These two enemies need to be vigorously combated at all times and in all places. The subject of sex must be dealt with frankly, and, on occasion, crudely, even at the risk of shocking dogmatic minds. As has been mentioned, the sexual problem begins to assume importance in the age of adolescence. When the sexual glands, which are among the so-called glands of internal secretion (endocrine glands) begin to be active, the quality of the blood in the organism is changed and there are consequential modifications of cellular and nervous activity. This modification leads to the appear ance of the masculine and feminine characteristics of the organism. Their appearance causes great changes in the child's organism and consciousness. As things are, the child too often stands absolutely alone and unaided, without any understanding, in the midst of all these problems which have so suddenly arisen. The child receives no help from parent, doctor or teacher. Not the least of the tragedies of our educational system is that children are stuffed with useless, abstract knowledge and left in complete ignorance of the workings of their own bodies.