Stopes wrote it after a first marriage annulled for non-consummation, and it says plainly what medical books of the day would not: that women have desire, that it follows a rhythm husbands should learn, and that ignorance ruins marriages. It sold half a million copies and was banned as obscene in the United States. Her separate and vigorous eugenic campaigning is a real charge against her, and is argued elsewhere in her work rather than here.
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