The central question is how can the "desire for freedom"[1] and "physical and mental exploration" be balanced with the limits of monogamy and raising a family.

However, the publishers – both academic and mainstream – she approached for Married Love felt the subject matter too controversial and turned it down.

[4] Its publication was finally financed by Humphrey Roe, a Manchester businessman and birth control campaigner, who Stopes would later marry.

Woolsey was the same judge who in 1933 would lift the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses, allowing for its publication and circulation in the United States of America.

In 1935 a survey of American academics said Married Love was one of the 25 most influential books of the previous 50 years, ahead of Relativity by Albert Einstein, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes.