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Youth Sexuality, Responsibility, and the Opening of the Brook Advisory Centres in London and Birmingham in the 1960s

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Abstract

This article takes the opening of the Brook Advisory Centres in London (1964) and Birmingham (1966) as a comparative case study for exploring the public debate on youth sexuality. The two centers were the first in postwar Britain specifically dedicated to the provision of advice on birth control and emotional problems to unmarried and young people. By focusing on an initiative that launched amid rising concerns over illegitimacy and promiscuity, the article engages with the debate over social change in the 1960s and the so-called permissive society. The author argues that the notion of responsibility became a key paradigm for supporters of a new sexual culture. Combining archival material, media analysis, and oral history interviews, the author shows that in constructing the need for a service for unmarried people, the Brook Advisory Centres faced accusations of encouraging promiscuity. Their main line of defense was the production of a narrative that stressed the notion of responsibility and moral guidance for unmarried people in avoiding unwanted babies. And in the debate around youth sexuality, locality mattered. In Birmingham, the prospect of formal contraceptive advice for unmarried girls was violently opposed by church members and family-planning doctors, whereas London witnessed the creation of a viable discourse with an emphasis on sexual responsibility.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , April 2022 , pp. 315 - 342
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110 In particular, the conservative Daily Telegraph, the liberal Guardian, the conservative Daily Express, the conservative Daily Mail, and the Evening Express all published neutral articles. See John Prince, “Birth Control Aid to Single Girls Urged,” Daily Telegraph, 20 May 1964, 17; John Prince, “Birth Control for the Unmarried Approved,” Daily Telegraph, 5 June 1964, 25; “FPA Favours Advice for Unmarried,” Guardian, 5 June 1964, 5; John Redfern, “Family Planners Speak Up for the Unwed,” Daily Express, 5 June 1964, 9; “Plea for Girls in Love,” Daily Mail, 5 June 1964, 3; Kevin Rowntree, “Sex-before-Marriage: Split over Advice to Young People,” Evening Express, 4 June 1964, 3; John Prince, “Unmarried Get Second Birth Control Clinic,” Daily Telegraph, 17 December 1964, 19.

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131 Hancox, “Morals and the Young,” 27.

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147 Dyhouse, Girl Trouble, 124,

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