Sanger's friendship with Katharine McCormick was key, however. Sex redesigned, re-engineered, made safe, made limitless, for the pleasure of women." In the end, she would have to step off the stage to let more conservative, cooler psyches win the public relations battles. Unconventional and controversial, she founded Planned Parenthood with the aim of liberating women to have what Eig describes as "sex, the more the better. This time he introduces us to the unlikely quartet whose passions - in and out of bed - gave us the Pill.įirst, Margaret Sanger, perhaps the only name most people can associate with birth control in the United States. In his previous biographies, Eig has detailed the significant lives of gangster Al Capone and ballplayers Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig. For millions of women across the globe, and for many of their partners, its widespread availability by the late 1960s instantly changed their todays and tomorrows for the better. Youngsters will not remember the birth of the Pill, but I do. "For as long as men and women have been making babies," author Jonathan Eig reminds us, "they've also been trying not to," thrusting all manner of disgusting things inside a woman, threatening her life. Once, men and women fought over sex not because of headaches or monthly blues but because women were sick and tired of pregnancy, child after child after child. "The Birth of the Pill" is surely no aphrodisiac, but if you have a libido and any sense of gratitude, you might be provoked by this book to celebrate tonight your quite-new ability to enjoy sex without anxiety - or at least without fear of pregnancy.
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