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CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE DANGER OF VENEREAL DISEASES
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to combine an anti-venereal lecture with one on sexual anatomy and physiology.
If the problem appears under this aspect from the general point of view, it will be the same from the cinematograph point of view.
We do not in the least see the advantage, for the anti-venereal campaign, of showing the anatomy and physiology of sexual organs at the cinema, even schematically.
It could be done, certainly, in spite of the difficulties in the way, which in our opinion are not insurmountable; and we have seen some films, especially foreign ones, presented with great refinement, which we consider could be shown to boys and girls, from the age of puberty, without the slightest inconvenience. But since this is not the general opinion and since it is not indispensable to anti-venereal edu
cation, why run the risk of having any attempt at such education forbidden by insisting, for purely doctrinal reasons, on giving the sexual education at the same time as the anti-venereal?
In our opinion, the mere posing of the question provides the answer to it.
But whatever may be thought on this particular point, we shall never tire of asserting that the cinema represents one of the best means at hand for anti-venereal education; a much better means than the lecture and easier to use than the radio; and its value cannot but increase through the infinitely greater possibilities offered by the dramatized talking film.
We must recognize that from now on the cinema is the best means to use for popular education against the danger of venereal diseases.