The aspect of sex and the use of birth control were touchy issues in the early 20th century. Sex was only for married couples that wanted to have children. The idea of sex before marriage was crazy. Because of all the beliefs about sex being only for procreation and not for pleasure birth control was not needed. There was one major event and one key person who are responsible for making the use of birth control acceptable in America.

The major event being World War I. In World War I there was a lot of usage of whore houses by the French and English soldiers. A major problem with the French and English governments allowing men to go to the whorehouses was that there was rapid spread of VD. A soldier that is suffering from herpes, syphilis, or gonorrhea doesn't fight too well. President Wilson was very concerned about the American soldiers getting sick and not able to fight. He also wanted to stop the spread of VD

Wilson decided that during boot camp the soldiers would be taught about VD's, and the effect of them. The recruits had to take a sexual education class. In the class the men were shown pictures and movies that showed what various vaginal diseases look

Sanger organized conventions to talk about her new ideas, and invited doctors. The doctors eat up her ideas about birth control. Margaret starts up the American Birth Control League, which was an organization that supported the use of birth control. By 1936, Sanger has the support of the doctors for birth control. In the same year the Supreme Court decided that birth control was not immoral or obscene. Sanger then, with the financial support of her husband, starts to set up birth control clinics in New York and surrounding areas.

Sanger serves her jail sentence and marries a wealthy inventor, Noah Slee. Slee has the same views on birth control as Margaret does, and they start a birth control movement. Sanger knew she wouldn't be able to convince the doctors and the public of the use of birth control of whites, so she used racist material to get the support of birth control. Sanger uses the "science" of Eugenics, which is the science of race, to promote birth control. She says that birth control needs to become legal in order to stop the blacks and the non-whites from having too many children. Sanger says that the non-whites would start to outnumber the white population in America, so birth control was needed to stop the spread of the non-whites.

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Men also loved the invention of the pill. Men no longer needed to use a condom to prevent childbirth. He could go at it without having to use the cumbersome, not to mention less sensual, condom. The Pill also allowed men to fool around on their wives/girlfriends with out getting in trouble for it.

ed like, and what they would do to a mans sex organs. This was an effective in stopping the American soldiers from going to the French whorehouses. Another program the U.S. Government instituted to stop the spread of VD was to give out condoms to the soldiers. The government, however, wasn't condoning sex with the free condoms. Printed on the condoms was " for prevention of disease only". The government was only using birth control to stop VD not pregnancy.

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