The reader should be warned that, in spite of Stanton’s attempt at opening doors on the subject, that sex and sexual hygene were then still in its infancy, and that the cautions and suggestions offered here are still quite ancient to our modern philosophy. Ok XXX What fathers should do for their boys
Make sex facts clear to your young boy as interesting, matter-of-fact developments of general natural laws. Curiosity is one of the greatest natural factors in the prpoer development, if rightly directed. Should anyone doubt that previous generations entertained odd, unusual, misinformed, even outright bizarre notions about what constituted a healthy mind, a healthy body and a healthy, rational attitude about matters sexual, look no farther than Henry Stanton’s treatise Sex Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English.
