As regards German schools,
see, e.g., Moll, _Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis_, p.
449 et seq., and for sexual manifestations in early life
generally, the same author's _Sexual Life of the Child_; also
Hirschfeld, _Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol. v,
1903, p. 47 et seq., and, for references, Hirschfeld, _Die
Homosexualitaet_, p. 46 et seq.
While much may be done by physical hygiene and other means to prevent the
extension of homosexuality in schools,[243] it is impossible, and even
undesirable, to repress absolutely the emotional manifestations of sex in
either boys or girls who have reached the age of puberty.[244] It must
always be remembered that profoundly rooted organic impulses cannot be
effectually combated by direct methods. Writing of a period two centuries
ago, Casanova, in relating his early life as a seminarist trained to the
priesthood, describes the precautions taken to prevent the youths entering
each other's beds, and points out the folly of such precautions.[245] As
that master of the human heart remarks, such prohibitions intensify the
very evil they are intended to prevent by invoking in its aid the impulse
to disobedience natural to every child of Adam and Eve, and the
observation has often been repeated by teachers since.
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