The Pill and the Sexual Revolution

The Pill and the Sexual Revolution | American Experience - PBS

Many argued that the Pill was, in fact, responsible for the sexual revolution. The Pill's revolutionary breakthrough, that it allowed women to separate sex from ...

The Great Bluff That Led To A 'Magical' Pill And A Sexual Revolution

In the '50s, four people collaborated to create a pill so women could enjoy sex. They fibbed about their motivations and skirted the law.

The Pill Started More Than a Sexual Revolution - The New York Times

Much has been written about how it revolutionized sexual and social relationships, allowing women to defer pregnancy, enter the work force and make life ...

The Pill: Did It Cause The Sexual Revolution? - Focus on the Family

This little pill – the first medicine ever designed to be taken by the healthy – chemically altered a woman's hormonal cycle, preventing ovulation and thus, ...

Taking the Pill after the 'sexual revolution': female contraceptive ...

This article examines the particular reasons for the shift in contraceptive behaviour in West Germany and England.

The Pill and the Women's Liberation Movement | American Experience

In the decade after the Pill was released, the oral contraceptive gave women highly effective control over their fertility.

Beyond The Bedroom: What The Birth Control Pill Really Did For ...

To be sure, there's no denying the pill triggered the sexual revolution for women as well. Because they no longer had to worry about getting ...

The contraceptive pill: A story of sexual liberation and dubious ...

The contraceptive pill has been in use in Norway for fifty years, but there are still insecurity and myths related to its use and side effects.

Was there a 'sexual revolution' in the Twentieth Century?

Hera Cook argues it was the widespread availability of the pill that caused a 'transformation of sexual mores from 1965 to 1969' and many ...

The Great Bluff That Led To A 'Magical' Pill And A Sexual Revolution

In the '50s, four people collaborated to create a pill that would allow women to enjoy sex. Jonathan Eig details the history in The Birth of ...

Sexual revolution - Wikipedia

The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and ...

POLITICS, CULTURE, AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION IN ...

Thepillhad tobe prescribed. Medical doctors, then as now, controlled access to oral contraceptives. And in the early 1960s when the pill was introduced, only a ...

How the Sexual Revolution Unfolded | National Review

The Pill had two different effects. One, obviously, it allowed its users to have sex with a hugely reduced chance of pregnancy. But two, ...

How the Sexual Revolution Changed the World | Louise Perry

... sexual revolution. Perry asserts that the pill was the most influential factor in culturally cementing the 1960s sexual revolution, as well ...

A Critique of the Sexual Revolution - jstor

velopment of “the pill” in the early 1960s. Though one is tempted to credit the pill as the key to change in sexual morality, the decision to develop and ...

HOW THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION PAVED THE WAY FOR A NEW ...

The Pill allowed women to separate sex from procreation, without relying on men for protection, and encouraged women to be more open and free with their ...

The Pill, the Sexual Revolution, and the Schools - jstor

With the pill, premarital sex with out any fear of sex or the ... The sexual revolution should precipitate the educational revolution, which should in turn.

Grown Up in the 1960s - The Sexual Revolution

This in turn led to debates around whether GPs and parents should be informed about prescriptions given to young women. That aside, take up ...

Penicillin, not the pill, may have launched the sexual revolution

The widespread use of penicillin, leading to a rapid decline in syphilis during the 1950s, is what launched the modern sexual era.

Economist claims penicillin -- not the pill -- launched sexual revolution

"The evidence, however, strongly indicates that the widespread use of penicillin, leading to a rapid decline in syphilis during the 1950s, is ...