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BIGELOW Professor of Biology and Director of School of Practical Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University ANY times in 1915 it was said MANY there could be little hope of keeping widespread interest in the American sex-education and social hygiene movements, because the beginning of war had so completely distracted attention from so many problems that seemed important in time of peace. However, as in many other things which in the first year of the Great War we considered on the basis of anti-bellum views and experiences, we were decidedly wrong in thinking that the intelligent public would refuse to remain interested in the sex problems which had been pressed forward for attention during the preceding ten years. Of course the experts in the sociology of sex knew, from the history of all previous wars, that there was sure to be an enormous increase of sexual promiscuity and, therefore, of venereal diseases, not only in the armies but also in the civilian population; but while these terrible concomitants of war were expected by the specialists in social hygiene and military medicine, they did not expect a wave of public interest in the sex problems of wartime. Fortunately, for the health No. 5 and efficiency of the armies of Uucle Sam and especially for the future health and morals of the American people, there has developed during the year 1917 a widespread and deep interest in sex-education and social hygiene. It is true that the greatest interest is primarily with reference to the armies being prepared, and hence attention is being centered at present on the soldiers in training and on the civilian population which is near military establishments. However, the recognized importance of a direct and immediate attack on the sex problems of the soldiers is leading many people to see that the situation in a military camp is only a concentration and expansion of the immoral and unmoral sexual conditions in the country at large. In other words, the irregular sexual habits of many soldiers who overlook the moral law is far from being the direct result of military life. It is no new development found only in army camps. It is simply on a large scale a consolidation of some immorally-tending forces that are very common among young men everywhere today. Chief of these forces are the early-formed immoral habits of many young men and the lack of definite and steadying moral ideals of many others. These two forces alone would certainly lead to abundant patronizing of vice by any group of ten to forty thousand young men, selected by lot in times of peace and segregated in city or country where vicious opportunities are available. One can not be surprised, then, at the immoral tendencies in all armies, because to previous immorality and unmorality we must add the changed manner of life imposed by military conditions, the vicious associates, the deadly routine, the vulgarity inevitable in large segregations of men, the resignation to fate, the absence of the refining influence of women and children, the familiarity of silly young women, and the abundant solicitations of professional prostitutes. The natural result is that some soldiers return whenever possible to their previous immoral habits and others without guiding ideals are drawn into the whirlpool of debased sexual functioning. Such is the result of pre-war conditions. Back of the whole tragic story of the sexual problems of the war is the general situation wnich points to the need of universal sexeducation (see Bigelow, "Sex-Education," Chapter II, Macmillan Co., 1915). The fact that the sex problems of army life are the direct result of those of civilian life is being recognized by many men and women who have become interested thru present wartime problems; and we may safely prophesy that the sex-education movement will go forward rapidly, especially after the war. It is impossible to be lieve that intelligent parents and educators who have been awakened by wartime immorality will continue to be willing to subject their young people to the dangers of ignorance and immoral attitude towards sex. Turning now to consider for a time the sex-education and social hygiene that has been specifically planned for the armies of the United States, it should first be noted that there are two distinct lines of attack on the sex problems of the soldier, namely, moral and sanitary. The moral attack is partly educational work designed to lead the individual to guide himself by moral ideals, and partly administrative in keeping the camp zones free from vice, and in providing wholesome and normal recreation for soldiers during their free hours. The sanitary attack is partly educational in guarding against venereal diseases by knowledge concerning their nature, sources, effects, and treatment; partly medical in treating the existing diseased soldiers, and partly prophylactic in applying antiseptic methods for preventing development of more social disease. The moral campaign of the War Department is primarily under the Commission on Training Camp Activities* whose chairman, RAYMOND B. FOSDICK, is well known for his Y. M. C. A. work. This Commission has enlisted the cooperation of many societies and local committees in the neighborhood of camps. Sex-education is being emphasized in the army camps. Special mention *A pamphlet descriptive of its work can be obtained by writing to the Commission, Room 149, Old Land Office Building, Washington, D. C. |