Q.
What did Chesterton say about Birth Control?
-Margaret
A.
"What is quaintly called Birth Control . . . is in fact, of course,
a scheme for preventing birth in order to escape control." ("The
Surrender upon Sex" The Well and the Shallows)
"Normal and real birth control is called self control."
("Social Reform vs. Birth Control")
"Birth Control is a name given to a succession of different
expedients by which it is possible to filch the pleasure belonging
to a natural process while violently and unnaturally thwarting the
process itself." ("Social Reform vs. Birth Control")
"We can always convict such people of sentimentalism by their
weakness for euphemism. The phrase they use is always softened and
suited for journalistic appeals. They talk of free love when they
mean something quite different, better defined as free lust. But
being sentimentalists they feel bound to simper and coo over the
word "love." They insist on talking about Birth Control when they
mean less birth and no control. We could smash them to atoms, if
we could be as indecent in our language as they are immoral in their
conclusions." ("Obstinate Orthodoxy" The Thing)
- The "Quotemeister"
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