Sexual revolution

Sexual revolution
Part of the counterculture of the 1960s
Buttons from the sexual revolution
Date1960s–1970s
LocationWestern world
Participants
OutcomeWider acceptance of sexuality and contraception

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 1960s to the 1970s.[1] Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships (primarily marriage).[2] The normalization of contraception and the pill, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of 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.