There was a moralism behind Our Bodies, Ourselves: Sex was potentially a source of boundless pleasure for people, but crabby and envious older people, representatives of the old society, were conspiring to hide the truth about it. Those old crabs had to be fought and their mythologies discredited. The chapter on abortion came before the chapter on childbearing, as if the former were the norm and the latter the exception. Having children was an aspect of the quest for sexual pleasure, rather than the other way around. Skeptical about the maternal higher ends that had traditionally been ascribed
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