What do women want? Freud's famous question, for which he confessed he had no answer, is scarcely a mystery for many women today in the liberation movement. What women want, they say, is at the very least complete control over their own bodies, that is, their own reproductive behavior, thus ending involuntary pregnancy and compulsory motherhood. The second thing they want is a full range of choice among alternative life styles-career and homemaking, bricklaying and engineering, marriage and motherhood and so on into various permutations and combinations, all realized through a variety of true options, the choice among them to be relatively free of pressure and coercion. There is little doubt that in this country we are moving rapidly toward the ideal of "body control," toward the separation of sexual expression from pregnancy and childbirth. Consider that early in the century couples were being advised in manuals like The Science of Eugenics and Sex Life (1914) that "women are affectionate, and when they nestle close to a man, they excite sexual desire on the part of the man. Married couples will do well to sleep in separate beds. By this means, intercourse occurs less often, and health is preserved; for opportunity is the cause of much useless and injurious intercourse." Abstinence was the preferred method for avoiding pregnancy and for improving genetic quality. "Unfortunately for the race," writes one medical expert, "irresponsible sexual intercourse is so largely the rule among the married, that unwelcome, sickly and viciously inclined children are thrust into the world with no chance to make their own lives such as will be worth living." But this is 1970. Gone are the days when women lived in terror of the sexual embrace because it meant still another pregnancy, still another year of sickness, still another child to care for. Gone are the days when separate bedrooms and locked doors were offered as solutions for the desperate. Technology has progressed, and with great rumblings the Mountain has given birth t o t h e Pill !