Married Love by Marie Stopes

Based on the unyielding premise that sexual happiness was the right of every person, it offended the Church, conservative medical opinion, reviewers and professional moralists.

Inevitably there were publishing problems: two major publishers rejected the book - and Walter Blackie, who had published her "Journal from Japan" (1910), asked: "Don't you think you should wait publication until after the war at least? There will be few enough girls for the men to marry; and a book would frighten off the few." She is said to have replied:"What an idea of marriage you must have if you think the truth about it will frighten people off."