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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