Education: Boys and Sex

The sexual experiences of growing boys have not had much detached study. But Indiana University's Glenn V. Ramsey has lately made some unusual inquiries. He asked frank questions of 291 middle-class boys in "a Middle Western city," got apparently frank answers. Findings:

> What sorts of stimuli, Psychologist Ramsey wanted to know, have the most erotic effect on boys? Very young boys (under 14) responded most to talk about sex, older boys to seeing a naked girl. Next to these ranked daydreams, obscene pictures, movies, burlesque. Music, jazz or otherwise, was at the bottom...

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