Sexual revolution

Sexual revolution
Part of the counterculture of the 1960s
Buttons from the sexual revolution
Datelate 1950s – early 1970s
LocationWestern world
Participants
OutcomeWider proliferation of sexuality, contraception, and pornography

The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the developed Western world from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.[1] Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sexual intercourse outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships, primarily marriage.[2] The legalization of the pill as well as other forms of contraception, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, alternative forms of sexuality, and abortion all followed.[3][4]

  1. ^ Allyn, David (2000). Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution. Little, Brown and Company. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-316-03930-6.
  2. ^ Escoffier 2003, p. 47.
  3. ^ Germaine Greer and The Female Eunuch
  4. ^ "Abc-Clio". Greenwood.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2011. Retrieved November 5, 2011.

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