sexual revolution

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And so the counterculture and the left who are talking about sexual liberation and are talking about the problems with capitalism and the problems with the West get conflated with the sexual revolution.

From Salon

Hockenberry allowed that “being a misguided romantic, or being born at the wrong time, or taking the wrong cues from the sexual revolution of the Sixties” was no “justification for offensive behavior toward women”—and yet, somehow, those justifications found their way into the essay anyway.

From Slate

Ruth Institute Director Jennifer Roback Morse summarized the absurdity of all this: “In Illinois, you can knowingly spread this deadly STD without being penalized, while in New York, you can be kept out of restaurants and denied employment for refusing to get vaccinated. This shows, once again, that advocates of the Sexual Revolution allow nothing to stand in the way of high-risk activity, as long as it’s sexual activity. Shopping, eating, and going to the movies, not so much.”

From Washington Times

The psychological theory of the Sexual Revolution, in which strict sexual rules imposed neurosis while liberation offered wholeness, was embraced with particular fervor in Germany, because the old order was associated not just with prudery but with fascism and Auschwitz.

From New York Times

“They’re concerned about the rot in the church. There’s clearly been a nodding and winking and looking away. The church is not immune from the fallout of the sexual revolution — that’s gotten as extreme as putting children on puberty blockers,” she said.

From Washington Post