What a Young Boy Ought to Know (Self and Sex Series)

190, [14] pp. Hoolihan 3314: "In an interesting adaptation of new technology as a literary device, the author addresses a series of talks to his young friend Harry (on the important question of where his newly arrived baby sister came from) using phonograph cylinders. Each chapter in the book, therefore, is referred to as a cylinder. The cylinders are divided into seven parts: I. God's purpose in endowing plants, animals, and man with reproductive organs. II. The manner in which the reproductive organs are injured in boys by abuse. III. What are the consequences in boys of the abuse of the reproductive organs. IV. How boys may preserve their entire bodies in purity and strength. V. Our duty to aid others to avoid pernicious habits and to retain or regain their purity and strength. VI. How purity and strength may be measurably regained. VII. The age of puberty and its attendant changes. What a Young Boy Ought to Know was the companion title to Mary Wood-Allen's What a Young Girl Ought to Know in the Self and Sex Series."