Explores the social history of the contraceptive pill with the help of three generations of women. The inventors of the pill hoped it would solve the world's population crisis, but it turned out instead to be the chosen birth control method of the Western world, not of the developing countries. Suggests that after decades of sex without responsibility, HIV and AIDS have sent sexual attitudes back to the fearful pre-pill days of the 1950s.
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