Sex and its mysteries / by George Ryley Scott.

  • Scott, George Ryley, 1886-1955
Date:
1929
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sex and its mysteries / by George Ryley Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To carry out the plan I have here outlined it is necessary that those who have in hand the education and disillusionment of the young should themselves first be educated. The public, as I have already indicated, has in its possession a whole armamentarium of sex information. In the main, this information is erroneous, incomplete and deleterious. This is mainly the result of those who have set up to disseminate the information having given, consciously or unconsciously, a mass of half-truths. As Moll puts it: — The very persons to whom to-day we have to look to effect the sexual enlightenment of children, are themselves to a great extent also in need of enlighten- ment ; and in respect of many of the questions about which the child has to be enlightened, no general harmony of scientific opinion can as yet be said to obtain.2 Moll might well have gone further. He might with complete justification have indicated that those respon- sible for the sexual education of adults are likewise in dire need of enlightenment. The position calls there- fore for the burying of pseudo-knowledge as well as the acquiring of real knowledge. Thus the object of the present work. In it I am attempting to state the whole truth, so far as I myself know it, about sex : to pull wholly aside the curtains that still partially conceal its mysteries. This is my object and my justification. The book is not intended for infants either in vears or intelligence. It is not intended for the morons of both sexes who painfully and uncomprehendingly plod through Joyce's Ulysses in their search for words • Moll, The Sexual Life of the Child, translated by Eden Paul, M.D.