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Really? Off the top of my head, I would have said:
Really? Off the top of my head, I would have said:
:Margaret Sanger had something to do with those "ideas;"
:*Margaret Sanger had something to do with those "ideas;"
:That the ''ideas'' of the sexual revolution had been around for a long time;
:*That the ''ideas'' of the sexual revolution had been around for a long time;
:That the sexual revolution was really just a follow-on to the Roaring Twenties and the "Jazz Age," and everything important about it is plainly evident in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara's early work (''Appointment in Samarra,'' ''Butterfield 8''). It was just a continuation of something that had been interrupted by the Depression and the Second World War.
:*That the sexual revolution was really just a follow-on to the Roaring Twenties and the "Jazz Age," and everything important about it is plainly evident in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara's early work (''Appointment in Samarra,'' ''Butterfield 8''). It was just a continuation of something that had been interrupted by the Depression and the Second World War.
I'd also have said that the sexual revolution had very little to do with ''ideas'' and a great deal to do with "the Pill." I was going to associate it with the names of Gregory Pincus and John Rock, but [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/timeline/timeline2.html this page] also connects it to Margaret Sanger, who helped spark the idea in a 1951 conversation with Pincus, and with Katherine McCormick, who funded the development of the drug. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 16:09, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
I'd also have said that the sexual revolution had very little to do with ''ideas'' and a great deal to do with "the Pill." I was going to associate it with the names of Gregory Pincus and John Rock, but [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/timeline/timeline2.html this page] also connects it to Margaret Sanger, who helped spark the idea in a 1951 conversation with Pincus, and with Katherine McCormick, who funded the development of the drug. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 16:09, 8 May 2007 (EDT)