HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Margaret Sanger, Dodgy, Planned Parenthood
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Feminists had idea of wars only existing because men were in power and if they just had more sex, there"d be less war. Lollipop" written for interracial duo performance increased paranoia about interracial sex. So they get white girls to sing it to make it less concerning. But his experiments were pretty off and dodgy. Condoms called rubber because used to literally be made out of chunks of rubber. But also believed in eugenics and promoted the pill because the poor couldn"t afford it and reproduce. Wanting to call a total ban on immigration because of this. A workaround for getting the pill was for heavy periods". By "63, 2. 3 million are taking it regularly, goes to 6mil real quick. Sexual revolution was the product of combination of changing social mores and technological innovation. So, what they did was put it out as a scare with blood clots and infertility.
