Impacts Of Birth Control

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what various vaginal diseases looked 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. After World War I the GI�s that came home used the information they learned in the sexual education classes in boot camp and put them to work. With the knowledge of the condom and the recent invention of the car, premarital sex was widely practiced. The women of post World War I had twice as much sex as their mothers had had. Many people in the early 1900�s said sex was not only for reproduction but for pleasure as well. The psychologist Sigmund Freud said sex was a natural human behavior. He ...

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were too radical for the time, and she was sent back to Russia. Emma Goldman opened the door for the woman who would get birth control eventually accepted by the doctors and the public. Margaret Sanger would be the next person to take Emma�s space. She worked in a hospital on the Lower East Side of New York. Margaret became involved in the International Workers of the World. This was a union that wanted to reach out to women, immigrants, colored people, and migrant workers, to try and create a huge union. Sanger worked in the International Workers of the World with Emma Goldman and learned about issues concerning women�s health. This is when she begins to write about Venereal Disease, ...

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