Maurice Alpheus Bigelow

"help young people prepare to solve for themselves the problems of sex",

Young people need instruction that relates not only to health but also to attitude and to morals as these three are influenced by sexual instincts and relationships.

"sex." This word and its companion "sexual" are objectionable because they are associated in the minds of most people with vulgar interpretation of the physical aspects of the beginning of individual life, and much of the opposition to the proposed sex-instruction in home and schools is evidently based on the feeling that the very word "sex" involves something inherently vulgar.