A beginning in this direction has been made in Germany by the delivery to teachers of courses of lectures on sexual hygiene in education.

In Prussia the first attempt was made in Breslau when the central school authorities requested Dr.Martin Chotzen to deliver such a course to one hundred and fifty teachers who took the greatest interest in the lectures, which covered the anatomy of the sexual organs, the development of the sexual instinct, its chief perversions, venereal diseases, and the importance of the cultivation of self-control.

In _Geschlecht und Gesellschaft_ (Bd.

i, Heft 7) Dr.Fritz Reuther gives the substance of lectures which he has delivered to a class of young teachers; they cover much the same ground as Chotzen's.
There is no evidence that in England the Minister of Education has yet taken any steps to insure the delivery of lectures on sexual hygiene to the pupils who are about to leave school.

In Prussia, however, the Ministry of Education has taken an active interest in this matter, and such lectures are beginning to be commonly delivered, though attendance at them is not usually obligatory.