The system of sex education which we have worked out during the past seven years in our school, an all-Catholic day grammar school for girls in the centre of a great city, is an attempt to ensure that each of our pupils has the right kind of enlightenment on the sacred mysteries of life.

From the school's viewpoint this is an obvious necessity. Girls have to be prepared for the naturalistic outlook of the world around home and school on sex, love, purity and marriage, which threatens the sanctity of the home. For this they must understand the full significance of and derive the full benefit from the religious and moral training given in school, especially on the sixth and ninth commandments and the sacrament of matrimony—a difficult, if not impossible, objective without proper preliminary sex enlightenment.