Section 163 also makes it an offence to «advertise instructions, medicine, drug or article intended or represented as a method for restoring sexual virility or
curing venereal diseases or disease of the generative organs».
In this new democracy of sexual desire the invention of efficient and inexpensive contraceptive devices and of improved drugs for the
cure of
venereal diseases is regarded as a signal advance toward the goal of the good life, for now it is possible to engage freely and widely in sexual intercourse with little fear of unwanted consequences, in the form of either offspring or infection.