sexual revolution

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Heritage equates the pill with feminism and the sexual revolution.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2025

And the social upheaval of the 1960s and ’70s — the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the sexual revolution, environmentalism.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

People like Andrea Dworkin, they came of age before the sexual revolution and before feminism.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022

When I was back in high school — a Catholic girls’ school in Cincinnati at the beginning of the sexual revolution — our religion class covered the abortion issue in approximately 45 seconds.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2022

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published an analysis on the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal, blaming it on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and church laws that protected priests.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2019