Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-23
The SEX PROBLEM
An Able Essay by an Able Min
lister.
CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW The TRUTH
Two Sides to the Problem Which Is a
Grave One-Parcnts Should Give
Their Children Correct KnowIedue.

kCV. George Il. Thompson in WaXhaW
Enterprise.
The sex problem! Immediately we
are inclined to dwell upon the deGrad-
ing, abnormal, destructive side of the
| question, as though this were the
whole of it. The great social wees
/ and diseases that have hlightcd civil
zation throughout human history arc
indeed important things. They arc
fearful to contemplate and form a
most serious and menacing problem.
They are not, however, the real prob
lem which the human student of sex
must keep before him, any more than
crime and tho treatment of criminals
is the real problem of progressive civ
ilization. Disease is not the chief
! problem of life. Sound, wholesome
living and growth arc the real prob
lens.
There are two sides TO the sex prob
lem. Keep them before the mind and
all prudery will disappear. One side
ural, positive, stimulating, upbuilding
role of sex in human life. The other
deals with the abnormal and destruc-
tive and dangerous perversions that
arc such 4 blot to our human history.
The law of God, the laws of man.
ihe customs and conventionalities Of
society, the physical, psychical, and
moral natures of men are all in favor
Of supporting the fact of sex when it
is rightly understood. When man per-
| mits the animal in him to dominate he
pcrpetuatcs the practices which per-
vert the fact of sex.
Sex and all that it implies is a per-
fectly natural, normal fact of life.
with nothing unholy or peverse
about it. \ study of the subject would
show us that scX is responsible for
| certain great principles Of growth and
development in all organism, from the
lowest TO- the highest. The differences
| between men and women--in body, in
mind, in disposition, in temperament
arc not just mysterious, created diff
fcrcncos; but arc the direct result Of
The development of the sex nature in
tie individual. If we did not have the
fact of sex such words as manlincss.
womanlincss. love. courtship, parental
care, flial devotion, brotherhood,
would have no mcanir;. The facts,
ideas, and relations which these words
represent could not exist but for that
which wc call SEX"
WHY SHOULD parents refrain from
giving their children definite and pos
tive instruction concerning the fun
damontal facts of sex, when these
same children will ask questions of
companions or strangers and receive
erroneous information, umbclliShcd
with all the filth which u dcrraVCd
mind can think up, thus making SEX
ua! purity Il by-word and sexual Ii
ccnSc fact?
Eut thee is another reason why
sons and daughters should he rightly
Informed. Erroneous information, if
made use Of, will lead to disastrous
results. Lei the children grow up
with the idea that sexual imdiSc.CtionS
ar" permissible or that sexual indul-
ccnircnts the daughter and he Prison
cell o. the electric chair, awaits the
son. a pleasant prospect because "i
false modcSty, parental Indifference or
ignorance.
We are moi dealing with theories
when we touch upon tn" effects to the
physical being Of the race should man
seq III to pcrycTt the fact OF sex. Hos
pitll@. insane asylums, blind children,
cnrecblcd Eodi 3, physical wrecks, sui
cidce the hundreds Of daughters who
are swallowed M by our cities each
ycar-th"Sc testify that there is 4 law
written by the hand Of God, Thou
shalt not commit adultery"
We gag our public speakers, re-
instruct the sons and daughters all BE-
rauSc il is not nice" to talk about
The most important fact in The physi-
cal nature Of manEind-and then have
tn" pcrv"rsion of the fact brought tu
our attention through the Law courts
where tn" disgusting details Of mans
dcpr'lyity and womans ndi#crctior
arc set before the world. Such details