The 'Pincus Pill'

In the early 1960s the birth control pill was introduced by Dr. Pincus and was popularly known as the 'Pincus pill'. We as medical students in the year 1963, were introduced to this pill in our Pharmacology lectures. There was a popular saying attributed to George Bernard Shaw that sex was limited by 'Lack of opportunity to the male and fear of consequences by the female'. Dr. Jansz in his lectures told us that the maximum number of accidents happened in the bedroom. He was referring to unplanned accidental pregnancies. With the introduction of 'the pill' the Hippy generation took off. 'Opportunities' for the males were wide open as a result of the 'fear of consequences' of the female being eliminated by 'the pill'. In 1966 when I was DMO at Koslanda in the Uva we were introducing the 'Pill', the condom and the IUCD in our family planning clinics. The unsophisticated villagers took it in their stride. In the year 1968 when I was in Kandy I heard a popular version of the nursery rhyme of 'Jack and Jill'. It went as follows:-
'Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jill forgot to take the pill,
And now they have a daughter'

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