Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Implicit was her conviction that both men and women were polygamous by nature and should therefore be free whether married or not to engage in sexual relationships that were based on mutual love. Black and Russell visited Soviet Russia in 1920 soon after the BolDora Russellvik revolution.

Dora Russell Countess Russell (née Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author a feminist and socialist campaigner and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.