The War On Women: The Chamberlain-Kahn Act of 1918

[niyad]

2. did a quick google on this to refresh my memory--and came across this little gem

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It took rampant STDs during WWI to get the federal government involved in sex ed. In 1918, Congress passed The Chamberlain-Kahn Act, which allocated money to educate soldiers about syphilis and gonorrhea. During this time, Americans began to view sex ed as a public-health issue. The American Hygiene Association, founded in 1914 as part of the Progressive-era social purity movement, helped teach soldiers about sexual hygiene throughout the war. Instructors used a machine called the stereomotorgraph to show soldiers microscopic slides of syphilis and gonorrhea organisms, as well as symptoms of the diseases on the body of an actual soldier.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/10/27/the-sin-of-yielding-to-impure-desire.html