The so-called “era of modern contraception” did not begin until 1960, when both the birth control pill and intrauterine device (IUD) became widely available. Without the “pill” and the IUD, the 1960’s would have had a much different zeitgeist. Maybe there would still have been drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, but sexual promiscuity would have been just a problematic as in prior generations. However, because technology had made babies optional, by the end of the decade, sex had become a recreational activity. Today, the fruits of separating sex from procreation are all around us. We live in a vast, failed sociological experiment that few moderns even recognize the novelty of. Wasn’t it always the primary goal of life to have as much “good sex” as possible without the “consequence” of a baby? Even if that “good sex” is found in perversions, such as in copulating with an AI-controlled sex robot?

https://orthodoxreflections.com/time-for-orthodox-babies-contraception-is-immoral-and-destructive/