AHC and WI: Earlier Sexual Revolution

Andre27

Banned
Penicillin could have been discovered decades (if not centuries) before than in OTL. The fungus was known by, IIRC, Indian healers for centuries, but it was likely mixed along plenty of other herbs and cures which didn't work.
What I don't know is if that would have sped up the development of antibiotics, which are required to cure syphilis.

In the cultural front, I think the Hays Code can be butterflied away this way: it gets implement during 1920s, in the silent era. The USA then gets invaded by foreign, almost soft porn, films which aren't subject to the Hays Code - and at this point there is no language barrier. Fearing they'll loose a significant market share, the American Studios scratch the Hays Code. Alternately (or on top of this), the SCOTUS rules that movies are protected by the First Amendment, so there is no fear of a State imposed censorship to promote the implementation of an ATL Hays Code.

Condoms already existed (and they protect against Syphilis) but they aren't the sort of contraceptives of which women have full control.

The breakthrough in WW2 with penicillin wasn't the discovery of the antibiotic, but how to produce it in large quantities.
 
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