Where Would We Be Without Contraceptives?

Easy to forget how the pill as the first mass market form of biochemical contraception is called changed the erotic culture of America and Europe.

That women could enjoy themselves without fear of giving birth to unwanted children prompted social evolution that can't be understated.

Many fundagelicals wish they could turn the clock back. Too late.

For this reason Christian moralists and others are doomed to failure with their quixotic hopes of getting people to say no to sex or to save themselves for married monogamy; they might as well try to put a genie back in his lamp. Because higamous, hogamous we are mostly not monogamous, and we no longer have any reproductive reason even to try to pretend that we are.

For better and for worse, contraception changed sexual morality. But it is surely for the best that long-term contraception will now make it less likely that unwanted babies will be born to unwilling or unthinking mothers. That is a great emancipation by any standards.

Not a path to promiscuity, but to sanity