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The Journals of Continental Congress stated that any soldier who contracted vinereal disease had to pay for his own treatment.
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Outlawed the distribution of birth control information and devices.
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Significant changes occured in the way Americans viewed sex, morality, and sex education. This was the era where people started seeing the importance of having some kind of formalized sex education in schools.
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This movement argued that problems of sex came from not evil, but human ignorance. This movement was mainly concerned with avoiding STI's.
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This movement encouraged discussion of venereal diseases so that men could know about them and hopefully be able to avoid them with proper education.
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During World War 1 the government started for the first time testing their soldiers for STI's.
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In 1914 the National Education Assocation (NEA) passed resolutions for the adoption of Sexual Education in schools
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Margaret Sanger who opposed the Comstock Laws illegally opened the first birth control clinic.
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The government started spending money to combat venereal disease creating free clinics and educational campaigns.
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Margaret Sanger won a court battle where Birth Control would no longer be considered obscene by the goverment.
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The Planned Parenthood organization was created and they adopted their first view on sex education.
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Gregory Pincus created the first birth control pill that was allowed to be distributed to the public.
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The 1960's were the beginning of the free love, hippie movement. Sexaulity became much more open and in the public eye.
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This court decision legalized abortion for the United States
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In the early 1980's the HIV virus was discovered. Little was known about it at the time, but it was known that there was no cure.
