Good Episode of History Detectives tonight...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/case/306_index.html

Birth Control Box?

Birth Control Box
The Detectives: Elyse Luray and Tukufu Zuberi
The Place: Salem, California
The Case: A Missouri resident recently inherited a number of items that had been in her family for over 130 years, including an unusual wooden box. The label affixed to the inside of the box contained the date 1894 and language that suggested the box once contained a birth control device. If this is indeed true, how would a family in remote, rural Missouri obtain such a device, during a time when such items were banned and considered lewd and immoral?

History Detectives picks up the case in Missouri, with a story that just may change the way we think about the history of family planning in America.

Awesome episode. They covered the Comstock Act, and it's scary knowing that it's still on the books, even though the SCOTUS rendered it pretty well much unenforcable.


It also served as a great cautionary tale as to what could happen if we let the fundiefascists gain too much power in this country.

[Old_Fart]

1. "I'm a history buff"

I will have to watch the show.