It often seemed more polite to sleep with a man than to chuck him out of your flat. True, we’d been brought up to say ‘no’ to sex, but the only reason for that was because we might get pregnant … But now, armed with the pill, and with every man knowing you were armed with the pill, pregnancy was no longer a reason to say ‘no’ to sex. And men exploited this mercilessly. Now, for them, ‘no’ always meant ‘yes’.
