Normal schools gave comparatively little attention to sex hygiene and rarely used nature study and biology as an approach to it¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Twenty-nine of 84 schools did not touch sex hygiene in any form, and only 27 of 84 used nature study and biology as an approach to treating it. → Arthur Heche 1909

Evidence¶

Arthur Heche 1909¶

Arthur Heche. (1909). A Report on the Teaching and Practice of Hygiene in the Public Normal Schools of the United States. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducreducpsyc

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Questionnaire returns on sex hygiene from 84 schools. Twelve schools report a course, but several cases are described as doubtful. Only 27 answered affirmatively on using nature study and biology as an avenue to sex hygiene.

"Twenty-nine of these do not touch the problem of sex hygiene either in direct instruction or in incidental treatment in other courses."

Discussion¶

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