sexual revolution

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But “The Shattering,” which intertwines the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution, is no saccharine account.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2021

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

The show was an indictment of the soul-crushing nature of commercialization set in the Eisenhower years, before the counterculture and the sexual revolution.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019

Speaking via phone earlier this month, Comen wondered if the roadblocks we still grapple with in the cancer community today got their start, ironically, at the height of the sexual revolution.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2018