She had numerous lovers – enjoying, she said, being “ravaged by romances”. In the winter of 1950, the 47-year-old Pincus met Margaret Sanger, introduced in the first line of Eig’s book as “an old woman who loved sex and had spent 40 years seeking a way to make it better” her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan described her as “a propagandist for the joys of the flesh”. With his bristling moustache and uncombed hair, the chain-smoking biologist resembled “a cross between Albert Einstein and Groucho Marx”. He was an expert in mammalian reproduction, famous for having created a test-tube rabbit, which saw him vilified in the press as a new Frankenstein. The bestower of this Promethean gift, and the hero of Jonathan Eig’s book, was an unlikely figure: Gregory Pincus, “a scientist with a genius IQ and a dubious reputation”. “I n its effects I believe that the pill ranks in importance with the discovery of fire,” wrote the British-American anthropologist Ashley Montagu in 1969, excited that the invention was already upturning “age-old beliefs, practices and institutions”.
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