by Carolyn Moynihan
Women are losers in the modern sexual relationships market. What will it take for them to break out of this dilemma?
Mother’s Day in the United States (and some other countries) had an ironic twist to it this year: the powers that be chose to observe May 9 as the fiftieth anniversary of the public debut of the contraceptive pill, the twentieth century’s chief weapon against motherhood as a serious vocation. Read more…
by R.J. Snell
The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
The Pill turns 50 this month. Such a significant anniversary prompted cover stories, histories, celebratory remembrances, and calls for expanded access. None of this attention is surprising: the Pill was and continues to be an enormous source of social change in demographics, sexual activity, social mores, divorce, gender roles, and the economy. What is surprising is how mixed some of these assessments have been. Read more…
Here’s another good one to commemorate the anniversary of The Pill.
By Daniel J. Flynn
Fifty years ago this June, the Food and Drug Administration granted approval to the birth-control pill. Because the FDA had announced on May 9, 1960, that it intended to approve the drug, and because May 9 conveniently fell on Mother’s Day this year, The Pill’s celebrants seized on Mother’s Day to mark The Pill’s anniversary. In contrast to the perfect timing that links a drug to prevent motherhood with a holiday celebrating it is the bad timing that witnesses The Pill’s 50th anniversary coinciding with a study whose findings suggest birth-control pills have worked better in theory than in practice. Read more…
For those of you who are too young to remember: Racquel Welch was a serious sex symbol in the seventies. Anyhow, here is her take on the anniversary of The Pill. I have to love her for her graciousness to her ex-husband:
On the upside, by the early 60′s The Pill had made it easier for a woman to choose to delay having children until after she established herself in a career. Nonetheless, for young women of childbearing age (I was one of them) there was a need for some careful soul searching — and consideration about the long-range effects of oral contraceptives — before addressing this very personal decision. It was a decision I too would have to face when I discovered I was pregnant at age 19. Read more…
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