Impact of the Pill

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Impact of the pill
- Sexual revolution
  - Helped to catalyse the sexual revolution
  - 19% of married women and 9% of unmarried women by 1969
  - Sex became more of a recreational than procreational thing
  - It changed attitudes towards sex and it became more of a part of everyday life
  - People were more free to talk about sex
  - Linked to the Lady Chatterly Case and Profumo Scandal
- View of women
  - Men saw women as more sexual than before
    - Link to the mini skirt and new fashions
  - Women could be easily pressured into sex
  - Increase in relationships
- Female freedom
  - Control over their bodies
  - Can decide to have children
  - Freedom over their future
  - More chances of promiscuity and adultery
- Family Planning
  - Brook Clinics founded in1964
    - Help to protect teenagers
    - Keep them from getting pregnant
  - Family Planning Act 1967
    - abortion legalised
  - People could have children when they could afford them
Usage rose from 50,000 in 1962 to 1 million by 1969
Geoffrey Gorer survey 1969- 4/100 women use the pill and 1 of the 4 for medical reasons
Average age of marriage fell from 25 in 1940s to 23 in 1970s
Condom was used by most unmarried couples
Less than 1 in 5 of married couples under 5 using the pill

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