May 23, 1904. Dr. Prince Morrow's plea for the organization of a
society of sanitary and moral prophylaxis, read before the Medical
Society of the County of New York.
February 9, 1905. Organization meeting of the American Society of
Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, in New York.
March, 1906. Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Social
Diseases organized.
October, 1906. Chicago Society of Social Hygiene organized.
December, 1907. Portland (Ore.) Social Hygiene Society organized.
October, 1908. Spokane Society of Social and Moral Prophylaxis
organized.
June, 1910. American Federation for Sex-Hygiene organized.
1911. Oregon Social Hygiene Society organized.
July 20, 1912. Resolution of the National Education Association
favoring training of teachers with the view, ultimately, of
sex-instruction in schools.
September 23-28, 1912. Meeting of subsection on sex-hygiene,
Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.
Washington, D.C.
February, 1912. Organization of American Vigilance Association.
October, 1913. Merging of the American Federation for Sex-Hygiene
and the American Vigilance Association into the new American
Social Hygiene Association.
1913. Organization of Pacific Coast Federation for Sex-Hygiene,
changed to Pacific Coast Social Hygiene Association in June, 1914.
July, 1914. The National Education Association, at Minneapolis,
adopted the following resolutions in line with the latest
principles of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis and
the American Social Hygiene Association:
"The Association, re-affirming its belief in the constructive
value of education in sex-hygiene, directs attention to the
grave dangers, ethical and social, arising out of a sex
consciousness stimulated by undue emphasis upon sex problems
and relations. The situation is so serious as to render
neglect hazardous. The Association urges upon all parents the
obvious duty of parental care and instruction in such matters
and directs attention to the mistake of leaving such problems
exclusively to the school. The Association believes that
sex-hygiene should be approached in the public schools
conservatively under the direction of persons qualified by
scientific training and teaching experience in order to
assure a safe moral point of view. The Association,
therefore, recommends that institutions preparing teachers
give attention to such subjects as would qualify for
instruction in the general field of morals as well as in the
particular field of sex-hygiene."