Widespread contraceptive availability increases women’s sexual freedom and premarital experience.
Evidence
The existence of surer and more convenient contraceptive devices is helping woman’s sexual freedom a great deal; in a country like America where these practices are widespread, the number of young girls still virgins at marriage is much lower than in France; such practices make for far greater abandon during the love act. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 975
Categorization
- SHARE: A concrete comparative fact (America vs. France, virginity at marriage) useful to someone studying contraception history or mid-century sexual norms.
- XREF: connects to: Psychosocial impediments, not access, block contraception use in patriarchal societies; Reducing population growth requires improving women’s status, not just supplying contraception — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2852; Restricted contraceptive access functions as coerced childbearing in poor nations — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2597 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychosocial impediments, not access, block contraception use in patriarchal societies; Reducing population growth requires improving women’s status, not just supplying contraception — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2852; Restricted contraceptive access functions as coerced childbearing in poor nations — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2597 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Access and knowledge alone fail to drive contraceptive adoption without norm change
#qualifies(0.85) - Psychosocial impediments, not access, block contraception use in patriarchal societies
#qualifies(0.82) - Contraceptive underuse stems from motivation, not information or access
#qualifies(0.80) - Control of women’s sexuality intensifies when communities feel they are losing control
#complicates(0.78) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 325 - Entry into production and reproductive freedom drive women’s political emancipation
#expands(0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 276 - Reducing population growth requires improving women’s status, not just supplying contraception
#expands(0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2852 - Male status concerns and machismo drive resistance to contraception
#qualifies(0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2853 - Restricted contraceptive access functions as coerced childbearing in poor nations
#corroborates(0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2597