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The Sexual Revolution

During the 1960s, numerous progressives advocated for women to indulge their

sexual fantasies, believing that women should have the same sexual liberties as anyone else

in American culture. Many libertarians, though, claimed that the Feminist Movement would

only inflict damage and motivate people to participate in premarital intercourse and other

unethical activities. The sexual revolution, according to social progressives, was an appeal to

promiscuity and an assault on the very core of Western culture. Feminists and religious

progressives soon fought about the morality of the sexual awakening, and the Pill became

embroiled in the controversy. (Lines 4-6) ”For feminism, the Sexual Revolution was created

to liberate women and offer them back the freedom to dominate their sexuality, as well as to

eliminate the double norm of a single male getting intercourse when a single woman did not.

There were also big developments that ignited the Feminist Revolution and encouraged

people all around the world to pursue their sexual urges and wishes, such as the invention of

birth control.

Since the 1920s, when women first gained the right to vote and express themselves in

social and political settings, they started to challenge their positions in society and what was

required of them. Shortly after, women discovered how patriarchal social roles and double

expectations are in American society, and how they hinder their independence. Women began

protesting for equal opportunities, such as wage equality as men in the workforce and

explicitly demonstrating their sexual identity without judgment. People started speaking out

against unequal gender roles of sexuality amongst men and women in the 1960s. During that
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time, women  couldn't publicly discuss their sexual preferences or even have intercourse

without being criticized by others. Men, on the other hand, may socially and openly discuss

those issues with little or no repercussions.

Contraception methods were marketed to the general population in the 1960s, and

they quickly changed the direction of women's personal lives. Prior to the pill, most women

focused on other means of pregnancy control such as injections, vaginal implants and the

withdrawal approach. Most of which were either prohibitively costly, uncomfortable, or

unsuccessful, but with the advent of birth control , many people were able to conveniently

and successfully escape conception while also loving intercourse. Now that the Contraceptive

was readily accessible and fewer women were being pregnant by intercourse, people started

to disassociate sex from purely procreative reasons. Sex was no longer about fertility, but

rather about satisfying sexual urges and increasing bonding with your mate.
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Works Cited

Eberstadt, Mary. Adam and Eve after the pill: Paradoxes of the sexual revolution. Ignatius Press,

2012.

https://rb.gy/30ivws