ABSTRACT
The focus of the work of the British Society for Sex Psychology was the attempt to create a sympathetic public. The original contribution of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (BSSSP) could be in helping to shape the field of sex psychology of prime significance for social reformers, and in debating the particular topic of homosexuality. Sexuality was part of a wider current, with the development of the international sex-reform movement. British reformers, members of the British Society for Sex Psychology and other organisations, were drawn into the work of the League from the start. The Malthusian League was probably more successful as a challenge to respectable opinion than as an advocate of general birth control. In 1939 the National Birth Control Association became the Family Planning Association. Nothing better reflects the change from the feminist aspirations of many of the early birth-controllers to the social-planning emphases that were to become dominant from the 1940s.
