sexual revolution

Cultural  

1. A drastic relaxation in general standards of sexual behavior. The most recent occurred in the 1960s and was helped by the introduction of the Pill, an easy and reliable method of preventing pregnancy.

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sexual revolution

As a model and actress from the 1950s, she became an emblem of modern femininity and the sexual revolution before later taking up the cause of animal rights.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

This is not unlike other moral panics that have preceded this one—reefer madness in the 1930s, moral panics about sexuality during the sexual revolution.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2020

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