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

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

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

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