Women who grew up (and slept around*) during the "sexual revolution" in the 1960s and 70s but settled down with longtime partners before the HIV/AIDS epidemic thought they got off easy when it came to STIs.
See how that works? It's rare that we get both a question and an answer in the title of an article, probably because it spoils the suspense. Why would you bother reading on if you already know, in the case of Mary Eberstadt's article in the Saturday Wall Street Journal that no, the sexual revolution in fact hasn't been …
Fear of Flying author Erica Jong argues that this generation of young people have grown bored with sex. She knows this because she hangs out with young female writers sometimes, and they're apparently gazing wistfully to the morals of the 1950's, back before Erica Jong and her ilk made pre- and extra-marital sex fun…
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Martin Amis says he's written "a very feminist book" based on his sister, who was "pathologically promiscuous" and "one of the most spectacular victims of the [sexual] revolution." He adds, "It would have needed the Taliban to protect her." [Guardian]
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Last night, the History Channel premiered a documentary, Sex in '69, about the sexual revolution in America. In it, radical feminists of that era reflect on how feminism was shaped by the revolution, and vice versa.
Part 2 of VH1's documentary mini-series Sex: The Revolution aired last night, and a portion of it focused on the sexual revolution's influence on feminism in the 1970s and vice versa. The doc combines archival footage of interviews, TV shows, and protest rallies and new interviews with heavyweights like Gloria Steinem, …
