The Catalysis Of The Free Love Movement

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In post war America their existed a society of women fearful of pregnancy with morals that were deep rooted in religious believes. The pill did not exist and neither did women’s sexual freedoms. Virginity reined amongst the masses. Then came the free love movement. According to Jone Johnson Lewis a women’s history expert, “In the nineteen sixties and seventies free love came to imply a sexually active lifestyle with many casual sex partners and little to no commitment.” Showing a trend existed by citing Nancy L. Cohen, “In the 1960’s half of unmarried nineteen year old women hadn’t had sex. In the late 1980’s half of all American girls engaged in sexual intercourse by the age of 17, two thirds by the age of 18.” An editor on the subject from an encyclopedia stated, “Sex had definitely passed beyond the confines of family and community a shift that Americans consumer culture became quite adept at reinforcing in some ways the 1960s free love movement represented the culmination of this trend.” …show more content…

Wade and the ramifications of this movement may have brought about unwanted pregnancy and Aids. How has this movement changed the way we view sexuality in America today. Women came out sexually in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. From then on women were able to have the choice of contraception. Changes to the Catholic Church came about due to the free love revolution. Receiving the advantage of the option to sleep and stay where women chose to without

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