Before this huge step urged by Sanger, sex was viewed in a way more conservative fashion and for only one sole purpose. This could not contrast any more with how open and exposed people are now a days pertaining to sex. Planned Parenthood has become a normal and almost necessary thing for young girls now to avoid unplanned pregnancies and help educate on sexual health. Sanger helped pioneer the way for a sexual revolution and did so in a positive fashion with birth control being a huge help in cutting down the number of unplanned pregnancies. In contrast to how sex use to be viewed pre-birth control, current sex education explores all the different reasons people have sex, the main being strictly for pleasure. .
Another major difference in how sex and gender have evolved is due to the television. Televisions were made commercially available in the late 1920's and became common in homes, businesses, and institutions. The television was a source as entertainment as well as vehicle for heavy advertising, and along with this came the media. The media quickly changed many peoples perception of sex and gender through its advertising techniques, which can be seen even now a day in current media. A good example of this use of media is through the old Calvin Klein ads. Calvin Klein used pubescent kids to advertise their jeans, and this begins a shift in children being seen as sexual beings. Up until then children were not associated with sex in any way, being it the norm to with hold them from such a topic until the family felt the time was right to bring them up to speed. With this surge from the mass media, families had no choice but to watch at top labels like Calvin Klein used children to help sell their clothes and this was being broadcast on every television. Eventually families begin to give in and stop their view of the children being sexual beings became more accepted, "Their willingness to do so provides a measure of both their recognition that sexuality was moving irreversibly beyond the family & their commitment to resisting that movement.