Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-05
DIR, LYMAN B. SPERRY HEADS
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN FOR MANHOOD

tHLlIelS dHu bIlJeT INTO -lHiS How uSih
This new work began In 1885 and, as
he said last evening, he has been un'
able to get out Of it as yet. -.
During this work Doctor Sperry has
been brought into contact with thou
sands OF young men in all parts OF
the United States, and remarked last
night that he could tell tens Of thou
sands of tales which were told him by
young men who would not repeat the
same tales to their parents or even
their family physicians. He thea
made the statement that there was a
hell on earth and that thousands OF
young men, and young women as well,
we're already in it. q have made a
special study of the relation of mar
ootic drugs TO sex conditions" he said,
and the so-called social evil may
readily be divided into two classes
narcotics and prostitution. He then
vent on to tell Of the various kinds
of narcotics, mentioning opium, liquor,
cocaine and morphine. Tobacco, he
said, was worse than any of these.
Inspires to Ideals.
The object of series of lectures
such as Doctor Sperry is now giving
in Honolulu is to give men and boys
proper ideas of the nature and func-
tons of sex life and inspire them with
the big ideals of personal and social
purity. Men need more than dread
al physical disease; they need proper
conception of physiological functions
and the high ideals Of personal and
social obligation. The production OF
these ideals is. not the work of one
campaign, but many. The Young
Mems Christian Association should be
encouraged to keep patiently at the
work it has undertaken through the
Health League and its various conf
mittees.
Since Doctor Sperry's arrival in
Honolulu he has given a number OF
interesting lectures dealing with va
rious sex and health questions. While
he does not confine his remarks en-
tirely to sex matters, yet his main
object is to arouse interest in favor
of the furtherance of education along
lines of sex hygiene.
His Mission.
The best part of his several lee
lures on the sex questions may be
best summed up in the following re-
marks made by Doctor Sperry i'll a
recent interview:
Il notice that public attention to
sex problems is increasing rapidly OF
late What are the chief reasons for
ftp In general, would say that 1t is
l,,l a. - Inv I'M al
gence. scientific knowledge and con-
are rapidly awakening and are
becoming so clarified that they have
begun to recognize more positively
and more definitely the vast imDor-
lance of things that in past ages have
Leen covered under heaps iof ignor.
ence, superstition, delusion, custom,
prejudice and depravity. In recent
years many intelligent and conscien-
nous peoDle-whose number is in
cIeasing- have come to see quite
clearly that sex is the most conspic-
ueus and the most important fact in
life; in all forms of life, both animal
and vegetable. We have also come to |
see that sex instincts and impulses
give rise to most effective influences
both for good and for evil--in the ell
tire ranges of biological activity.
THE most tremendous fact in all
animate nature is this, Male and Fe-
male created He them, having seed |
within themselves to multiply and re-
plenish after their kind The laws, /
and impulses connected with
sexuality determine more facts and |
conditions in the evolution of living |
creatures than people in general have |
set dreamed of in philosophers or in
their 'foolosophies,' as Sam Jones used +
10 say.
Somehow it came about a long I
line ago that real knowledge, wise
Instruction and right example in sex
matters were tabooed by so-called
civilized people, and efforts were per
'istently hut fruitlessly made to pre-
'ent abuses in the sexual department
If our being through ignorance of it.
The field was largely left to blind,
lnimal impulse and, practically, to
of the depraved, the pervert-
ID, the degenerate and the vicious.
rs a consequence, in part at least,
We now have individual and social
ices, enslaying and degrading Gus
oms and satanic business enterprises
hat are working overtime to poison i
Is both mentally and physically, and
o undermine and destroy the race.
These destructive influences are seen
most conspicuously in what is called
he social evil an its resultant
diseases; in martial excuses and
,rimes; in solitary abuse, and in sun
Try unspeakable perversions of the
sexual instincts and inventions of
orrupt and corrupting degenerates.
DO YOU think that conditions are
rowing worse, or are they improv-
ng of late? 49,. -
They have been growing worse in
he United States since our civil war
fifty years ago, especially along GER
ain lines and in many communities.
PROSTITUTION is more general and more
'rolific of disease than 1t was fifty or
ven twenty-five years ago; and until
ute recently it has been more hold
nd defiant than ID was a generation
go. Consequently venereal diseases
ave greatly increased, and in, some
'arts of our country have almost