Foreign News: Blatantly Easy

"We all know that sex is supposed to be one of God's greatest gifts to the human race," said the Venerable Donald B. Harris, archdeacon of Bedford, "but it has become misused by men."

The archdeacon, his fellow churchmen and a goodly number of British city fathers were outraged by the ease with which Britons could obtain contraceptives at any hour of the night by dropping 2 shillings in a slot machine handily placed before closed stores. This service was damned last week by the British Association of Municipal Corporations as "harmful and dangerous to the individual and the state, especially to...

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