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...interviewers repeated the question, switching it to cover a 20-yearold son who is in love and sleeping with a girl. The responses were nearly identical, which indicates that most American parents are now willing to concede girls as much sexual freedom as boys. "The impact of the pill has been decisive indeed," Harris notes. He adds: "There is little doubt that America has come a long way toward both recognizing sexual practices in something less than forbidden terms and in acknowledging the growing liberality of sex behavior, especially among the young...
...Think of the Generation Yet Unborn-Let's Keep Them That Way." The trouble now, argues Hoppe, is that "we all worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills, but was intrigued by an experimental pill for males that had only one drawback: it caused men's eyeballs to turn red if they drank alcohol. "I mean, there you are, an attractive young lady. You walk into a cocktail party crowded with handsome young bachelors. Half have...
...jealousy in marriage. Sociologist Jessie Bernard, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, noted that some wives are relieved to find that their marriage is suffering from "nothing more serious" than infidelity. In addition, women are having more affairs of their own, partly because of the liberating influence of the pill and partly because of their growing economic independence...
Most of our complex emotions can be traced to the gurgling of enzymes. Even happiness. There is a pill of synthetic mescaline available in some corners of the underground, which, during its first four hours, gives you a gush of pure, unexplained happiness. And the same goes for tense, moral anguish. Perfectly above-ground psychiatrists have been giving their uncomfortably anxious patients a drug called librium (itself one of the atomic elements) to space them out a little more...
...Pill in its present forms, as sensible an opinion as any was expressed at last week's meeting of the College of Physicians by Dr. Ann Lawrence, a hormone specialist at the University of Chicago. She would not, she said, prescribe it for women with a family history of breast or cervical cancer, or the likelihood of clotting or circulatory problems, or diabetes. "I am one of what I would call the concerned physicians, simply pleading that the drug be used with a certain circumspection," said Dr. Lawrence. "But I wouldn't even try to deny that...