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4 unusual facts about Married Love


Humphrey Verdon Roe

In November 1917 Dr Binnie Dunlop, who was also interested in birth control, introduced Roe to Marie Stopes, who had just written a book called Married Love, but couldn't get it published.

Married Love

The book was the basis for a 1923 British silent film adaptation Married Love directed by Alexander Butler.

In 1935 a survey of American academics said Married Love was one of the 25 most influential books of the previous 50 years, ahead of Relativity by Albert Einstein, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes.

The US Customs Service banned the book as obscene until April 6, 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey overturned that decision.



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