sexual revolution
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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
But in recent decades, with the integration and rising power of Catholics in America, along with the sexual revolution, the divisions became more internal.
From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2021
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
Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published an analysis on the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal, blaming it on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and church laws that protected priests.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2019
