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The birth control pill became available in the early ’60s giving women much more control over pregnancy. Previously one of the arguments women used against having sex before marriage was the danger of becoming pregnant. With the pill this argument became weaker. This was despite the fact that most physicians would not give a prescription for the pill to unmarried women.

Some of my older readers will remember that when a couple was discussing whether or not to have sex, it was often like a small debate with him giving arguments for and she giving arguments against. Besides her need to be a virgin when she married, the woman’s two big arguments against having premarital intercourse were the fear of pregnancy and the fear of sexually transmitted diseases.

The sexually transmitted disease argument became weaker after the discovery of penicillin during World War II. It was effective against two big STD’s at the time, syphilis and gonorrhea. The evolution of gonorrhea resistance was not a known factor at the time, and of course with the sexual revolution we discovered many new STD’s.The possibility of an STD is no longer a strong argument not to have sex, but instead an argument to have safe sex.