Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall.

  • Hall, Winfield Scott, 1861-1942.
Date:
[1912]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    derelicts of which they know nothing because they have been told nothing. Is it a wonder that so many young men founder on the rocks of temptation or run amuck the derelicts ? The fathers of this generation have been negligent of their duty as their fathers before them were. Most of these fathers were good men who wished to do their duty by their sons and they did it as they saw it. The trouble was their vision was limited by the condition of the times. We have now, in these latter days, come to realize that the young man who is to live a clean efi&cient life must know his body and how to care for it, and that this knowledge must include a knowledge of the sex life. The young man needs this knowl- edge because it helps him to order his own life, and because being a social unit he is soon to establish a home, and as the head of a home must know and obey nature’s laws regarding the sex life. Every young man needs to know the scientist’s reason for advising the continent life. He needs to know the sociologist’s argument favouring an equal standard of [ n]