Identifier: educatingtopurit00gatt (find matches)
Title: Educating to purity; thoughts on sexual teaching and education proposed to clergymen, parents and other educators
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gatterer, Michael, 1862-1944 Krus, Franz, 1871- joint author Van der Donckt, Cyril, 1865- tr
Subjects: Sexual ethics
Publisher: Ratisbon, New York (etc.) F. Pustet & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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th sexes in the bath and by avoidance ofall that mystification which is the seed ofsubsequent hankering and pruriency. Thus little boys and girls can learn theirdifferences of anatomy before such mutualinspection in any way proves a temptation.Furthermore, methinks this would help toattain what the authors of Educating toPurity set forth as a desirable end, i.e., todispel the idea that there is somethingmysterious behind everything sexual. I anticipate opposition to this candid viewof mine, which I tentatively propose, but, aswith regard to the origin of babes, I aim at (159) ^Ebntating t& Tf/inxitQ thus innocently forefending the evil of subse-quent prurient investigation, which in manycases is bound to occur in this unedenicworld. Nor would modesty suffer thence,as the mother would carefully make thelittle ones understand that outside of thatone occasion of her bathing and cleaningthem together to save time, even little folkshould never uncover themselves in eachothers presence.
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