Note 99 — Chapter II · THE DEMAND

Among the German writers who have emphasized this point are F. W. Foerster, Sexualethik und Sexualpädagogik (Munich, 1910), and Julian Marcuse, Grundzüge einer sexuellen Pädagogik (Munich, 1908). The latter says with great vigor: “It were a disastrous blunder to suppose that intellectual enlightenment in reference to matters of sex is alone capable of preventing error and damage; the natural impulse is far too forceful to be mastered by mere knowledge of these things. Nay, helpful knowledge must be accompanied by training of the feelings, discipline of the will, things of infinitely greater importance than sheer enlightenment, both of which are foundations for sexual instruction that must be provided for.” p. 38.