Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, an Unfettered HistoryWhen Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girlhit bookstores in 1962, the sexual revolution was launched and there was no turning back. Soon came the pill, the end of censorship, the advent of feminism, and the rise of commercial pornography. Our daily lives changed in an unprecedented time of sexual openness and experimentation. Make Love, Not Waris the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful fifties to the first tremors of rebellion in the early sixties to the heady heyday of the revolution. Bringing a fresh perspective to the turbulence of these decades, David Allyn argues that the sexual revolutionaries of the '60s and '70s, by telling the truth about their own histories and desires, forced all Americans to re-examine the very meaning of freedom. Written with a historian's attention to nuance and a novelist's narrative drive, Make Love, Not Waris a provocative, vivid, and thoughtful account of one of the most captivating episodes in American history. Also includes an 8-page insert. |
Contents
Single Girls Double Standard | 10 |
Beatniks and Bathing Suits | 23 |
The Pill A Prescription for Equality | 30 |
Love the One Youre With | 41 |
Obscenity on Trial | 54 |
Strangers in a Strange Land The Harrad Experiment and Group Marriage | 71 |
The Right to Marry Loving v Virginia | 85 |
In Loco Parentis | 93 |
Medicine and Morality | 175 |
Why Do These Words Sound So Nasty? | 184 |
Ideology Herbert Marcuse Norman O Brown and Fritz Perls | 196 |
No Privacy Please Group Sex in the Seventies | 206 |
The Joy of Sales The Commercialization of Sexual Freedom | 228 |
Lesbian Liberation Equal But Separate | 246 |
Sexual Freedom on Demand | 256 |
Counterrevolution and Crisis | 270 |
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