Shifts in Attitude: After
Sylvia Clark: '...I could do something that would give part of me back to me...'Richard Hauskenecht: 'Sexual freedom.'Anita Fream: '...we did see it as world altering...'Linda Gordon: '...it was challenging... the most basic assumptions...'Anita Fream: '...for the first time in my life I could think about sex just as what it was...'Anita Fream: '...sex came out in the open...'Sylvia Clark: '...being able to continue a career...'Anita Fream: '...to please myself...'

Sylvia Clark | video | transcript

The pill for me didn't immediately fix anything in terms of my relationship with my husband, or improve it in that sense. What it gave to me was the sense of ownership of myself, which at that point in my life was very, very important. I could foresee at the age of twenty-three having another baby and another baby and another baby. And I was very disturbed, myself, about the loss of who I was. The loss of the investment that I'd made in my education, any future for me. Now that was considered a selfish motive at that time but that's how I felt. And so the idea that I could do something that would give part of me back to me was very important. And my husband was quite happy for me to use the pill, it wasn't a secret at all, and I think he was probably relieved because it took that burden away. So all in all, I think it was very, very positive.







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