About this title:From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States. In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A down-and-out sausage-casing worker by day who turned surplus animal intestines into a million-dollar condom enterprise at night; inventors who fashioned cervical caps out of watch springs; and a mother of six who kissed photographs of the inventor of the Pill -- these are just a few ...
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"A very engaging, if not exactly "engaged," read. Mainly focused -- perhaps to a fault -- on Comstock, Tone provides a nice starting point for any discussion of sexual practices and mores one might care to have in an historical sense. I enjoyed it; I may never read it again."
"I read this when it was assigned for a class (History of Sexuality), and its an interesting read. The book starts with the Comstock Law (1870s) and ends in the 1990s."
"Did you know that Lysol used to be marketed as a contraceptive douche? Does that fact fascinate you on about five different levels? If so, read this book."
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