It’s 90 years since Marie Stopes first published Married Love, a ground-breaking and explicit sex guide that advised young men how to improve their marriages by encouraging sexual enjoyment in their wives.
The book revolutionised the sex lives of the British middle class and was hugely popular, despite being condemned by the church and medical establishment. It also launched Marie Stopes’ career as a birth control campaigner. Her biographer, June Rose, and lecturer in the history of sexuality and women, Hera Cook, join Jane to discuss Marie Stopes’ controversial book and its legacy.
'Married Love' by Marie Stopes, is published by Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0192804327.
