sexual revolution

Example Sentences

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They belong to a generation of women who came of age in time for the sexual revolution and took advantage of that freedom pre-Roe v.

From New York Times

Meanwhile, the world at large — in the forms of Vietnam, civil rights, the sexual revolution and a spate of assassinations — was collapsing in on whatever it was they all thought they were up to.

From Washington Post

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

Abortion opponents typically frame abortion as a relatively new phenomenon, as if it was invented during the sexual revolution of the '60s.

From Salon

Among the small number of changes, though, was an addition of a poem to the section that in 2021 was titled “The Sexual Revolution and Feminism” and in 2022 was “Sexual Politics in America.”

From Slate