Playboy's History Of The Sexual Revolution, Part Vii: Make Love Not War, 1960-1969
June, 1998
Stick out your tongue. Your world is about to change.In 1960 a bureaucrat at the Food and Drug Administration gives approval to Enovid, an oral contraceptive based on a hormone made from Mexican yams. The Pill, as it will be called, will free women from centuries of fear and will give them control of their bodies. By the end of the decade more than six million women will be on the Pill, performing a daily ritual once occupied by worry beads. The dispenser is the badge of the new liberated woman....
