Wisconsin. Division of Health Education: Sex Education Program Records, 1940-1953

Biography/History

Beginning in the early 1940s, the Health Education Division employed four lecturers to present social hygiene classes to senior high school students, extra-curricular groups, summer camps, and parent groups. Health educators worked with parents, churches, schools, and community organizations to improve adult guidance of teenagers. Health lecturers' encouraged school officials to integrate social hygiene, or sex education, into the curriculum of home economics, biology and physical education classes. The Health Education Division also made available several pamphlets on social hygiene and loaned films on human growth and development, reproduction, and menstruation to school districts.