She finds that the chief objection encountered in such education, as applied in the higher classes of schools, is "the horror of the civilized man at his own body." She shows that there can be no doubt that those who are engaged in the difficult task of working towards the abolition of that superstitious horror have taken up a moral task of the first importance.
Walter Gerhard, in a thoughtful and sensible paper on the educational question ("Ein Kapitel zur Erziehungsfrage," _Geschlecht und Gesellschaft_, vol.i, Heft 2), points out that it is the adult who needs education in this matter--as in so many other matters of sexual enlightenment--considerably more than the child.

Parents educate their children from the earliest years in prudery, and vainly flatter themselves that they have thereby promoted their modesty and morality.

He records his own early life in a tropical land and accustomed to nakedness from the first.

"It was not till I came to Germany when nearly twenty that I learnt that the human body is indecent, and that it must not be shown because that 'would arouse bad impulses.' It was not till the human body was entirely withdrawn from my sight and after I was constantly told that there was something improper behind clothes, that I was able to understand this....

Until then I had not known that a naked body, by the mere fact of being naked, could arouse erotic feelings.