The Pill and the Puritan Ethic

  • Sexual freedom: the middle road / Lester Kirkendall

    Dr. Lester Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University and author of “The Problems of Remaining a Virgin,” gives a talk entitled “Sexual Freedom: The Middle Road” at the “The Pill and the Puritan Ethic” symposium held in San Francisco on February 12, 1967. His talk attacks both the Puritan right and the…

  • The ethics of sexual freedom / Joseph Fletcher

    Joseph Fletcher, S.T.D., Professor of Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theology School, Cambridge, Mass., and author of the controversial book “Situation Ethics: The New Morality,” gives a talk entitled “The Ethics of Sexual Freedom” at the “The Pill and the Puritan Ethic” symposium held in San Francisco on February 11, 1967. He talks on the…

  • The power to prescribe / moderated by Albert Fine

    Rabbi Alvin Fine (b. 25 Oct. 1916; d. 19 Jan. 1999), professor of humanities at San Francisco State College referees a 3-way duel between Dr. Don Jackson, director of the Mental Research Institution at Palo Alto, Dr. Albert Long, chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Presbyterian Medial Center, and Dr. Donald…