Apple Pie Makes You Sterile

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One of the many items produced during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, this humorous, pro-sex, anti-government button seemingly pokes fun at the idiom “as American as apple pie”. Follow patriotic ideals, it espouses, and you’ll wind up sterile - both physically and mentally. This button, among other materials such as bumper stickers, banners, and leaflets created by radicals of the era, was of great concern to conservatives, who felt they undermined their own values.