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We should mention something on this. Contraception is the ''key'' development in all thing sexual since it became effective and available. Contraception lead to practical promiscuity and the 'free love' movement, and the rise in acceptability of premarital sex, which in turn helped the acceptability of all public mention and depiction of sex from pornography to racy movie scenes. Contraception regulation resulted in the Griswold case - when the supreme court invented a right to contraception, they set the stage for greater future cases - Griswold was key precident in both Row v Wade and Lawrence V Texas. If Griswold had gone otherwise, it is extremally unlikely the court would later have forced the legalisation of abortion and sodomy. Attempts to prosecute contraceptive education under obscenity laws lead not just to the overturning of Cornstock law, but the weakening of obscenity law in general. Almost every trend in sexual immorality since the 1800's can be traced directly or indirectly to the spreading of contraception. This is why so many states and churches worked so hard to ban it - they could forsee the eventual consequences of making sex safe. - [[User:NewCrusader|NewCrusader]]
We should mention something on this. Contraception is the ''key'' development in all thing sexual since it became effective and available. Contraception lead to practical promiscuity and the 'free love' movement, and the rise in acceptability of premarital sex, which in turn helped the acceptability of all public mention and depiction of sex from pornography to racy movie scenes. Contraception regulation resulted in the Griswold case - when the supreme court invented a right to contraception, they set the stage for greater future cases - Griswold was key precident in both Row v Wade and Lawrence V Texas. If Griswold had gone otherwise, it is extremally unlikely the court would later have forced the legalisation of abortion and sodomy. Attempts to prosecute contraceptive education under obscenity laws lead not just to the overturning of Cornstock law, but the weakening of obscenity law in general. Almost every trend in sexual immorality since the 1800's can be traced directly or indirectly to the spreading of contraception. This is why so many states and churches worked so hard to ban it - they could forsee the eventual consequences of making sex safe. - [[User:NewCrusader|NewCrusader]]
: Not to mention some indirect effects. Contraception made it possible for women to follow the same path of education and career as men. Prior to contraception, this was not an option - any education or career could have been cut short by a baby, and no company would hire a woman except for a temporary position if a new family might pull her away. Contraception is in this way responsible for the women's rights movement, and thus for the feminism that sprang forth from it. Contraception made the modern world, socially speaking. It deserves more analysis here, if only so I can enjoy seeing how many contributors wish to go so far as to call for an outright ban. [[User:Suricou|Suricou]] 14:29, 23 April 2010 (EDT)
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==History stub==