Sex And Sexuality In The Twentieth Century

There are many ideas, movements, events, and people that shaped the history of sex and sexuality in the twentieth century. The three most influential are Margaret Sanger, Alfred Charles Kinsey, and the Homophile Movement.
Margaret Sanger made birth control accessible to the public, which altered the way in which people of the twentieth century understood sex. Margaret Sanger’s impact on contemporary society was tremendous. Sanger enabled women to control their fertility and made birth control accessible to the public. During this time basic information about sex, sexuality, and even anatomy was often outlawed as obscene. Sanger worked to educate women about the reproductive process to allow them to choose when and whether to have a child