Fr. Herbert Raterman was confessor and spiritual guide in a Cincinnati Jesuit prep school for many years.  He developed a course on women and sex for teenage boys and spoke to them by the thousands with their fathers.  This small book repeats that course, treating the most delicate subjects with plain talk -- topics mothers simply cannot raise with their growing sons and many fathers, understandably, find difficult to discuss, masturbation principally among them.

Tens of thousands of copies of this book were printed, but it has long been out of circulation.  Readers and reviewers in the 1970's said things like this:

"Shows an extraordinary depth of understanding that could only come from years of experience in helping countless boys."
-- F.J. Power, S.J., Messenger of the Sacred Heart, 1971.

"By all odds the best thing on sex education for the young man that I have seen.  It is updated in the true sense, avoiding rigorism but sacrificing nothing of Catholic teaching... Never afraid to emphasize mortal sin but gives useful indications and illustrations for determining it.  Solitary vice is dealt with fully."
-- Paul Hallett, National Catholic Register

"Handy... the questions and answers [are] explicit without being offensive."
-- Liguorian

"Squares perfectly with the traditional morality we have all learned."
-- Bishop Floyd Begin, Oakland, CA, dec.

But perhaps this letter to the editor of a leading Catholic newspaper in 1973 put is best:

"As a mother of six children, five of whom will be in Catholic schools next year, I am vitally concerned with the lack of Catholic teaching in 'religion' programs... So far, most of our parish schools have been spared the agony of fighting [sex ed] because for the last eight years Father Herbert Raterman, S.J., has conducted a six-session 'Morality of Sex' program for our students and parents... It is not only beneficial to students but to parents as well... recalls to us many Church teachings which have been obscured by promoters of 'new theology'... I sound like a professional promoter, but I am not.  I am just a mother satisfied with a sex education program and eager to tell other parents."
-- M.R., Cincinnati

Today Fr. Raterman hosts "Moments of Reparation" radio program, which is syndicated nationwide, and says the traditional Latin Mass for Cincinnati Catholics each Sunday.

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