Sexual revolution

Sexual revolution
Part of the counterculture of the 1960s
Buttons from the sexual revolution
Date1957–1974
LocationWestern world
Participants
OutcomeWider acceptance 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.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Nelliwinne