Self Knowledge and Guide to Sex Instruction: Vital Facts of Life for All Ages

=The greatest evil.=--Wonder is often expressed these days at the very rapid growth and rise of the movement known as “The Social Purity Movement,” or as stated from its negativ...

=Are men naturally more passionate than women?=--The accumulated hereditary effects of the double standard for centuries and his acquired tendencies have made man more sensual t...

=Social conditions of childhood changed.=--The social conditions of childhood have changed much in the last fifty years. Just as our children have opportunities and possibilitie...

=Purity, a nation’s strength.=--The strength and perpetuity of a nation consist not in its standing army, mighty navy, millions of population, strong fortifications, inexhaustib...

These are questions which are being asked by thousands of people in all parts of the country, and it is my purpose to attempt, to some extent, at least, to answer them.

=Life is real.=--What is life? Many theories have been offered by the leading materialistic students of the past and present, but all have signally failed to tell us what life i...

=A critic answered.=--During a lecture in a western city the author gave his audience an opportunity to ask questions and state their objections to his views on heredity. One of...

=Home a unit of government.=--As already observed, the home is a partnership. It is a unit of government. In an ideal unit of home government, every member is governed by and th...

=Why most girls go wrong.=--In my talk on a young woman’s ethics, I endeavored to give you such information and advice, regarding your association with young men, as would safeg...

=One-half trained before birth.=--This chapter will be devoted to the training of children before they are born. It is believed by some students of eugenics that heredity is ful...

=Why we are given sexual organs.=--You have learned God’s beautiful and sacred plan of bringing into this world baby plants, fish, birds, animals and human beings. You learned f...

=The author’s experience.=--When our girls, Fay and Fern, were six and four years of age, they became interested in learning about their coming into the world. Their mamma had t...

In presenting to our readers the opinions and advice of Annette Kellermann, we publish the words of one who knows whereof she speaks. Miss Kellermann is celebrated for the beaut...

=Extent of birthmarks.=--In other chapters I have discussed normal, prenatal influences. In this chapter, I will discuss abnormal mental influences of the mother, resulting in w...

=Similarity of changes in the sexes.=--Men and women are complements of each other. They have two correspondingly important and similar periods in life. In man, the first is whe...

=The burden of the feeble-minded.=--The history of Emma W., at one time an inmate of Letchworth Village, a New York institution for the feeble-minded, should be convincing that...

As the days and months glided by, our little girls were greeted one autumn morning by the advent of a little baby brother. Wife had given consent, years gone by, for me to tell...

=Organs of sex can be abused.=--In other talks we learned the names, position and functions of the different parts of the female form. In this lesson we will study one of the ab...

=The modern girl.=--A quarter of a century ago a community knew a year ahead when one of its young women was going to be married. In this fast age, some parents don’t find it ou...

Trees are grown-up sprouts; dogs are grown-up pups; horses are grown-up colts; and men are grown-up boys. A crooked, scarred sprout will produce an ugly, useless tree; a starved...

=How young can a girl become a mother?=--It would be possible but not likely for her to become pregnant soon after her first menstruation. If the ova should be fertilized at tha...

Fresh air and exercise are fast being considered the best health producers in the world, yet how sadly neglected; as hundreds of women give evidence every day, with the dull eye...

In order to make head against the horrible evils which accompany men’s profligacy and women’s prostitution, and to prevent the moral and physical disasters which result from you...

=Why some trees, kittens, calves, colts, do not become perfect.=--In the last chapter we found how perfect boys become perfect men. In this chapter we shall find why some boys d...

=What is the primary purpose of marriage?=--While there are several subordinate reasons for marriage, the one paramount reason is that of having and rearing a family. The only a...

You are now old enough to be exposed to all of the temptations and dangers incident to your approaching and rapidly developing manhood. Previously, we have referred to many thin...

=Indications of constitutional degeneracy.=--Feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, insanity, scrofula, cancer, rheumatism and gout are the outward indications of constitutional degenerac...

Strange as it may seem, middle-aged and old men are quite as ignorant of their sexual natures and the changes incident to their age, as is the average youth. Very few men know t...

=The bad cold “fallacy.”=--Most boys and young men are disposed to think of venereal diseases as a joke. They often compare them with a bad cold. They are often heard to boast o...

=The right of a child to receive good heredity.=--Every child has an absolute right to be well-born. To receive a good inheritance is worth infinitely more than to be born in a...

=Sublime miracle of motherhood.=--My talks to you would not be complete without a study of the sublime miracle of motherhood, the creation of a new life. It is no wonder that mo...

=The adolescent period.=--The first distinct period of a boy’s life is his boyhood. This closes when puberty dawns. This usually occurs when he is about fourteen and a half. Thi...

=Similar information needed by the boy and girl.=--Thus far the author has dealt with the best methods of telling the story of life to a child. These stories can be as effective...

You have been told God’s plans in bringing all the little fish, plants, birds, animals and human babies into the world. You have enjoyed all these stories. We have not gone into...

The cuts illustrating the first eleven exercises with descriptive matter, are taken from “Fasting, Hydropathy and Exercise” by permission of the authors Bernarr MacFadden and Fe...

=Few perfect men.=--When we study man in his relation to the world about him, in relation to his physical, mental and moral possibilities, we get a glimpse of what nature and hi...

=Girlhood.=--We have talked with each other about a small girl’s ethics, the proper social relations of girls with boys. Your girlhood has been one of innocence, playfulness and...

=The importance of fatherhood.=--In the past we have written, talked and sung of the duties, responsibilities, faithfulness, sacrifice and love of motherhood. Is there any reaso...

=The basic incentive for marriage.=--A completed home embraces a father, mother and one or more children, bound together by natural love for each other. The initial step in home...

=The introduction.=--Since you were a very small girl I have very carefully selected the stories told you and the books and papers read to you. What we read very largely determi...

=Views of the past.=--In the past, sex has been regarded as vitally a part of our physical organism. We are now learning that sex is vitally and substantially a part of our psyc...

=The true young knight.=--A true young knight is a boy, or young man, who is strong, brave, ambitious, intelligent, gallant and pure. The knights of the Middle Ages were strong...

=The social nature.=--You are now of an age when you will appreciate a heart to heart talk on the social relations of small girls and boys. God gave to us our social natures. It...

=You have a social nature.=--This nature should be developed. Boys and girls, men and women, are complements of each other. Every boy needs a sister and every girl needs a broth...

=When should parents begin telling a child of his origin?=--When a child asks about his origin he is old enough to be told the first story. Some children will ask about this by...

=Husband and wife equal partners.=--In the partnership of building a home, the wife is, in the truest and fullest sense, an equal partner with her husband. Equal rights and priv...

=The story of baby oysters.=--Before telling this story to my little girls I reviewed the story of the plants. This refreshed in their minds certain very important laws that the...

=An interesting change in a girl’s life.=--In the previous talk, we found that God has planned for a most interesting change to take place in a girl’s life. This change from gir...

It has been several months now since we had our last confidential talk. Many changes have taken place in your body and mind during these months. You have been inclined to be mor...

=The boy problem.=--The boy problem is becoming one of unusual interest to writers, teachers, lecturers, ministers and parents. Books, teaching, lecturing and preaching can aid...

The girl in the home is a member of the partnership plan of the family. She should have the same financial, social and moral rights of her brother. Her moral training should be...

=The father is the head of the home.=--The character of the home determines the character of the church, society and the nation. The home is the most important of all earthly in...

=Why attractive.=--Dancing is one of the social temptations that come to young girls when they are fifteen and older. The gliding, swaying movements of the dance, the brilliantl...

When our little girls were seven and nine this talk was given. The previous stories were reviewed bringing out the resemblances and differences. They were permitted to ask quest...

We have talked over many of the problems of boys and young men. You are now sixteen and new problems are constantly coming up in your life for solution. I would like to speak wi...

=A girl’s vanity.=--When girls reach the age of fifteen and sixteen their personal interest in personal beauty is apparent. Their frequent use of the mirror, a mania for primpin...

=Early Adolescence.=--You are now entering upon that period of a girl’s life known as the adolescence period. You are now passing from girlhood to womanhood. This period will be...