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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Example Sentences

I experienced the sexual revolution, the civil rights movement, Kennedy and King murders, Vietnam, Nixon, Cheney.

From New York Times

Speaking on Tuesday, Czarnek said schools should protect children from a moral and sexual revolution driven by “LGBT ideology”.

From Reuters

They were threatened by the counterculture and threatened by this new sexual revolution and all these things that were thought to be the cousin of communism.

From Salon

He said on Facebook that Western Europe, following the sexual revolution of the 1960s, was heading toward legalizing pedophilia, sex with animals, abortion on demand and euthanasia of the sick, weak and the old.

From Washington Times

Slimani, the French Moroccan novelist behind “The Perfect Nanny” and “Adèle,” argues for a sexual revolution in the Arabic world to free women from the expectation that they must be wives or virgins.

From New York Times