sexual revolution

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Heritage equates the pill with feminism and the sexual revolution.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2025

In 2019, he wrote a lengthy letter about sexual abuse, linking some of the church’s problems to the 1960s sexual revolution, a diagnosis that conflicted with Francis’s own theories about the root causes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2023

But “The Shattering,” which intertwines the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution, is no saccharine account.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2021

The show was an indictment of the soul-crushing nature of commercialization set in the Eisenhower years, before the counterculture and the sexual revolution.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019

Speaking via phone earlier this month, Comen wondered if the roadblocks we still grapple with in the cancer community today got their start, ironically, at the height of the sexual revolution.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2018