Sexual Revolution in America

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How Sex Changed America What if birth control weren’t allowed in the United States, Women were not able to openly enjoy sex and sex was an unheard, unseen thing. Less than a decade ago this was all true. So then what changed Americans views on sex? The answer is the sexual revolution of the nineteen sixties. The Sexual revolution changed the lives of many Americans. Women became more independent and liberated, the pill gave Americans a choice to fulfill their sexual lives, and sex was everywhere. From magazines to television sex was there. “A number of experts accept this relaxed attitude toward sex outside of relationships as a natural consequence of the sexual revolution, women's growing independence and the availability of modern contraceptives” (Wilson). Today sex is such a broadly discussed topic among adults, teens and even the elderly that we don’t even think twice. We, as Americans, don’t even realize how we got from sex being a private and sacred thing to sex being so casual that we don’t even realize it’s there. “The sexual revolution was a good thing. It has allowed people to remove the shackles of repressive, puritanical morality and experience freedom. People are sexual beings, and they need to explore their sexuality when they feel ready, without fear of guilt or shame.”(Boehi). As a result of the sexual revolution women’s’ roles began to change. Women were no longer tied down with children and could enjoy the world and explore their sexual desires before they made a choice to marry and have children or not. “If not for women’s self-determined sexual liberation, the sexual revolution might have been another unremarkable episode in the long and varied sexual history of humankind. Instead, with the impetus the sexual ... ... middle of paper ... ...012. Web. 13 Dec. 2013. Boehi, Dave. "Casualties of the Sexual Revolution." Casualties of the Sexual Revolution. N.p., 2008. Web. 13 Dec. 2013. Cohen, Nancy. "How the Sexual Revolution Changed America Forever." Alternet. N.p., 5 Feb. 2012. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. Desmond, Joan F. "Daily News." The Sexual Revolution’s Predictable Results. N.p., 3 Aug. 2012. Web. 13 Dec. 2013. Lindner, Vicki. "I was a Comandante in the Sexual Revolution." Frontiers 15.2 (1994): 87. ProQuest. Web. 12 Dec. 2013 “People & Events: The Pill and the Sexual Revolution." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2013. Risman Barbara, and Pepper Schwartz. "After the Sexual Revolution: Gender Politics in Teen Dating." Contexts. Spring 2002: 16-23. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 12 Dec 2013. Wilson, Brenda. "Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships." Www.npr.org. Npr Magazine, 8 June 2009. Web. 5 Dec. 2013.

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