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Article: Marie Stopes - The beginnings of Britain's sexual revolution; Marie Stopes revolutionised the sex lives of the British middle class and outraged society by setting up birth control clinics. But was she really as bold we believe? As her seminal text Married Love is reissued this month, Post Style Editor Caroline Foulkes looks at the life of a would-be pioneer.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Byline: Caroline Foulkes
Nineteen fifteen was a bad year for Reginald Ruggles Gates. His wife left him. But that was only the start.
Gates' wife was one Marie Carmichael Stopes. The same year she left Gates, she told American birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger that she was working on a book 'that will probably electrify this country'. That book was Married Love. And if hadn't been at least partly for her marriage to Gates, it might never have been written.
'In my own marriage I paid such a terrible price for sex-ignorance that I feel that ...