The Fifties
Season 1 • Episode 4: A Burning Desire • Watch with subtitles
Episode 4: A Burning Desire
December 21, 1997
During an otherwise repressed time, Americans again question their ideas of "normal" when the Kinsey report is published, Marilyn Monroe debuts as the centerfold in Hugh Heffner's Playboy, and Margaret Sanger and "Goody" Pincus begin to make noise about "The Pill."
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