Shifts in Attitude: Before
Joan McCracken: '...you could not kiss...'Anita Fream: '...you want to be a virgin...'Sylvia Clark: 'One was supposed to go from absolute celibacy... to suddenly... blossoming sexuality with one's husband...'Joan McCracken: '...we all wore girdles...'Loretta McLaughlin: '...they would burn in hell fire for eternity...'Richard Hauskenecht: '...mistakes occurred...'Joan McCracken: '...condoms were not acceptable...'Leslie Woodcock-Tentler: '...looking for another answer...'

Leslie Woodcock-Tentler | video | transcript

The early sixties are interesting for a lot of reasons, but you do begin for the first time to get lay people talking publicly about their experience of rhythm. And I think for a great many priests it was a time of some surprise that rhythm was as unsatisfying and as putatively unreliable as many lay people found it to be. And once you don't have that as your fallback position, you're, I think, open to looking for another answer.







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