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Hello, my lovely betwixters.

It's me, Kate Lester.

You are listening to Petwixter sheets.

This is a spicy podcast.

This is a saucy podcast.

This is the kind of podcast that might make your granny clutch her pearls.

Well, not my granny and probably not your granny to you, but you know what I mean. So in order to

protect everybody, I do have to let you know. This is an adult podcast, welcome by adults,

to other adults about adulty things in an adulty way, covering a range of adult subjects,

and you should be an adult too. We call that the fair do's warning because fair dues, we did warn you so now you can't get upset with us. Right on with the show.

In 1975, country music superstar Loretta Lynn dropped one of her most successful, not to mention her most controversial songs.

It was titled The Pill. And it told the story of a young woman who's decided to go and have herself some fun because she has got a reliable contraceptive now, The Pill.

She says she's sick of having baby after baby after

baby while her husband goes out at night chasing other women. But oh, how the tables have turned.

We would play you some of that song right now, but frankly, we couldn't afford the licensing fee.

But trust me, it is a belter of a tune. And there is no

doubt that the arrival of the contraceptive pill in 1960 changed everything. And Loretta Lynn was a

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