Reply #7: That was a very popular reason to start the pill back in the

[MineralMan]

early 1960s. My high school girlfriend started taking it before it was widely prescribed to teens. The doctor recommended it for her acne, which was vanishingly minor. I believe there was a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" factor in play there. She said the doctor asked her if she was "fooling around with boys," then prescribed the birth control pill for her "acne" when she admitted that "maybe" she was, "a little." The year was 1963. In California, condoms couldn't be sold to anyone under the age of 21, and they were "for the prevention of disease only." Uff da!