id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vx021c20z71 Eli T. Plopper Protestants and the Acceptance of Contraceptives in Britain and the U.S.A. 1904 .txt text/plain 483 20 33 At its heart was a desire to assist the wider social acceptance of contraceptives and a deep doubt about the plausibility of sexual abstinence within marriage. By the Lambeth Conference of 1930 an intense controversy had emerged, in which advocates for contraception pressed their case: self-restraint within marriage was untenable and unnatural; contraceptives could be a regular part of a healthy marriage. cache/vx021c20z71.txt txt/vx021c20z71.txt