It meant you could make your own decisions and not have to constantly be thinking about is this going to change my life? It separated sex from all those dangerous aspects. This is something bad if you do it with anyone other than that future husband. It'll ruin your life. It separated sex from all those things so that for the first time in my life I could think about sex just as what it was, just as sex and not as a potentially life destroying event, that you could do something impulsively that would have consequences for years. The pill separated it from all that. It really was an amazing innovation.