Perhaps like the savages, who make the boy die again, symbolically, and pull him forth through some narrow aperture, to be born again, and make him suffer and endure terrible hardships, to make a great dynamic effect on the consciousness, a terrible dynamic sense of change in the very being.

In short, a long, violent initiation, from which the lad emerges emaciated, but cut off forever from childhood, entered into the serious, responsible pale of manhood.

And with his whole consciousness convulsed by a great change, as his dynamic psyche actually is convulsed .-- And something in the same way, to initiate girls into womanhood.
There should be the intense dynamic reaction: the physical suffering and the physical realization sinking deep into the soul, changing the soul for ever.

Sex should come upon us as a terrible thing of suffering and privilege and mystery: a mysterious metamorphosis come upon us, and a new terrible power given us, and a new responsibility.
Telling ?--What's the good of telling ?--The mystery, the terror, and the tremendous power of sex should never be explained away.

The mass of mankind should _never_ be acquainted with the scientific biological facts of sex: _never_.