Beyond The Pill

Beyond the PillGeorgene led him lightly by one finger upstairs to her bed. ... When he worried about contraception, she laughed. Didn't Angela use Enovid yet? "Welcome," she said, "to the post-pill paradise."--John Updike, "Couples"The post-pill paradise.In 1960, Enovid-10, the first oral contraceptive for women, was introduced to America. The drug-obsessed society that spent billions of dollars a year on prescriptions soon called Enovid the pill, as if it were the...