Social Impact of Birth Control

SOCIAL IMPACT OF BIRTH CONTROL
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The introduction of pills for birth control in the US around 1960 had an impact on the social life, women health and fertility trends, in addition to sexual practices among both adults and adolescents. This introduction coincided with the social revolution where there was great changes regarding attitudes towards sexuality. The birth control pill enabled women to engage in sex without the fear of getting pregnant. For this reason, women acquired more sexual freedom that has never been experienced in the past thus, empowering them in the outside world.
Women were in the past had a burden of knowing that any sexual relations could result in pregnancy because the only precautionary measure was wearing condoms which had no proof of dependability (Silverman, 2013). This made more women to be fearful of becoming pregnant though it did not stop women from having extramarital sex but it created a veil of fear. The advent of birth control pills offered women an opportunity to be in charge of their sex lives and started to practice it whenever they wanted. The birth control pill thus, has put women in the same playing field as men. Birth control pills therefore, mean that there is no involuntary pregnancy which used to be a threat for female sexual activity in the past. The pills enabled women to acquire the power to decide on their physical, emotional and financial preparedness for commitment to have and raise children.
Many women did not have sex as they wanted before the advent of birth control pills since they did so after they got married. This was a huge commitment to make in order for women to have an excellent sex life. Married women who wanted to have sex without getting pregnant had to use alternative methods such as the rhythm method even though it was not a method that was dependable (Shi, 2012). Women can now have sex as often as they want without fear ...