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Report released suggesting childhood sex education could prevent sexually transmitted infections.

Date: 1919

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Released by the U.S. Department of Labor, the report responds to the high numbers of "venereal disease" amongst soldiers returning from World War I. The report suggests that sexual education for these soldiers when they were children might have prevented the high rates.