By Graham Heath
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Why not, in any pictorial 39 The Illusory Freedom representation, simply ban full nudity and simulated copulation. We did without them for 400 years and produced some wonderful theatre and films. " 16 40 CHAPTER SEVEN Churchmen and politicians Thoroughly belaboured for the views of their mediaeval and Victorian ancestors, overwhelmed by the statistics of the learned sexologists, and faced by a rapid decline in the younger element of their congregations, the leaders of the churches had little heart to resist the new conventional wisdom.
I was literally prevented from studying because I had to do without girls all the time". 9 Women's Lib leaders agreed that men had been the beneficiaries: " T h e rhetoric of the sexual revolution, if it brought no improvement for women, proved to have great value for men. By convincing women that the usual female games and demands were despicable, unfair, prudish, old55 The Illusory Freedom fashioned, puritanical and self-destructive, a new reservoir of available females was created to expand the tight supply of goods available for traditional sexual exploitation".
Given that a child is already sexually active, I would encourage it to use contraceptives", said Mr. 7 "It would have been more arresting, but a correct interpretation", said Sir John Stallworthy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, "if it had stated at the outset that the family planning services were to be available to men, women and children". 8 Those who advocated that contraceptive facilities should be made freely available to young single girls argued from the 32 5·* The liberators premise that their clients were already "sexually active", and that the provision of contraceptives was merely a recognition of an existing fact; the only choice being between contraception and abortion, the former must surely be preferable.