Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XV  SEXUAL EDUCATION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ADOLESCENT GIRL       Our very limited powers—Our children have to experiment and     to learn life for themselves—The theoretical teacher who     reforms the world on paper—The hindrances placed in the way     of the sex emotions—We educate girls and boys as if they were     sexless neuters—The folly of this denial of sex—The origin     of our fear—An attempt to express the psychological meaning     of the combination of the man and the woman—The differences     between the boy and the girl—An attempt to follow this     dissimilarity—The evils arising from the modern tendency to     ignore sex differences—This the real weakness in the position     of the modern girl—She has a profound distrust of herself     as a woman—Our schools and educational system founded on     the needs of boys—This a great evil—The development of the     girl at puberty more difficult than the development of the     boy—Every girl lives a hidden life of her own—The conflict in     the sensitive soul of the adolescent—This the age of romance     and idealism—The danger of sudden and wrong knowledge of the     physical facts of sex—Full instruction of girls more necessary     even than the instruction of boys—The immense danger of     repression—The transformation of puberty—Painful experiences     of youth act harmfully in the later years—Our deadly silences     and sham presentation of life—The injury we do to the girl     by ignoring her sexual life—Induces sexual coldness—This the     great cause of unhappiness in marriage—Our fear and denial of     love—This what is wrong with life.