Rebellious Sixties. A Sexual Revolution

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: 1,7, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: This essay discusses the pill's influence on the sixties women movements. Although conventional contraceptive methods such as the condom or the diaphragm already existed, no product struck as quickly and as successfully as the birth control pill. Within the first three years after the introduction of the pill in 1961, around half a million women were attracted to the contraceptive (Cook 2004). The fact that the prescription of the pill was linked to several conditions makes its success all the more impressive.