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The author argues, for example, that the pill did not instigate the sexual revolution and she describes how the media's blurred coverage of sexual behaviour and contraception produced the enduring, but inaccurate image of the pill as the symbol of sexual revolt. She demonstrates that the women who requested oral contraceptives from their physicians in the 1960s became more active participants in their own medical care. 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