Medicine: Sex Education

In an attempt to promote sex education of the most discriminating kind, the Social Hygiene Bureau, established by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has undertaken a survey of the sex, love and married life of 1,000 normal, well educated women. A questionnaire, prepared by Dr. Katharine Bement Davis, general secretary of the Bureau, was sent out to some 5,000 women and of the 1,000 replies received, 691 were from graduates of Vassar, Smith, Wellesley and other prominent women’s colleges.

Of this number 74% admitted that they practiced birth control. Health was given as the primary reason by 171 women; economic reasons actuated 156. Only 25 said they did not want children. More than 100 practiced artificial limitation from motives of health and economy combined.