[705] Ludwig Gurlitt, “Education in Manliness” (Berlin, 1907).
[706] Hans Wegener, “We Young Men: the Sexual Problem of the Cultured Young Man before Marriage: Purity, Strength, and the Love of Woman” (Düsseldorf and Leipzig, 1906).
[707] M. W. Drobisch, “Moral Statistics and the Freedom of the Human Will,” pp. 96-101 (Leipzig, 1867). Valuable works regarding the education of the character and the social education of the child are found in the first volume (second edition) of the monumental work edited by Adele Schreiber, “The Book of the Child” (Leipzig and Berlin, 1907), from the pens of Laura Frost (pp. 42-63), F. A. Schmidt (pp. 168-179), Lüngen (pp. 192-201), G. Kerschensteiner (pp. 202-207), R. Penzig (pp. 215-222), and Adele Schreiber (pp. 223-231). Important in relation to sexual enlightenment is also the question (one actively discussed at the present moment) of the education of the sexes in common—the so-called co-education. It has been proved by experience that co-education has a good effect in sexual relationships (cf. Gertrud Bäumer, “Co-education,” op. cit., vol. ii., pp. 44-48).
[708] The question of sexual education and enlightenment occupies at the moment a place in the foreground of public interest, and rightly so; for upon this depends principally the further reform and the resanation of all the sexual relationships of civilized peoples. For this reason the Discussions, now in the press, of the Third Congress of the Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases (“Sexualpädagogik”), Leipzig, 1907, were occupied exclusively with this subject, which was considered in elaborate debates from four points of view:
- 1. Sexual instruction in the house and the school.
- 2. Sexual enlightenment of young persons at puberty.
- 3. Sexual instruction of teachers and parents.
- 4. Sexual dietetics and education.
The present position of sexual pedagogy in all these respects is exactly defined in this comprehensive volume; and, in addition, at the conclusion of the book we find a compend of the recent literature of the subject. Much of value regarding sexual regimen is to be found in the work of H. Mann, “Art and the Sexual Conduct of Life” (Oranienburg, 1907), and in that of A. Eulenburg, “Sexual Regimen,” published in Mutterschutz, July and August, 1907. As an opponent of early sexual enlightenment, we must mention G. Leubuscher (“School Medicine and School Hygiene,” pp. 65-70; Leipzig, 1907). He considers that such enlightenment should only be given at the time of leaving school. His reasons, however, are not convincing, and, above all, do not apply to large towns.
CHAPTER XXVII
NEO-MALTHUSIANISM, THE PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION, ARTIFICIAL STERILITY AND ARTIFICIAL ABORTION
“Formerly the use of such devices was regarded as immoral and punishable, and was actually punished; it was condemned as an interference with the Divine plan. But such views and measures are extreme. Here, as everywhere, human foresight and methodical interference are permissible.”—Gustav Schmoller.