She was the first person I ever knew who was openly an ardent propagandist for the joys of the flesh. This, in those days, was radical indeed ... Margaret Sanger personally set out to rehabilitate sex.” By 1913, her marriage was beginning to break up. She wanted to put theory into practice regarding greater sexual freedom, but Bill Sanger did not. She increasingly began to regard him as a bore and even suggested that he take a mistress. He was appalled. “I am an anarchist, true, but I am also a monogamist. And if that makes me a conservative, then I am a conservative.”
