Sexual Revolution
Reports of a "sexual revolution" first appeared in the media in the mid-1960s. The reports identified a number of trends and developments taking place throughout American society. Midway through the decade, the popularity of rock music, the increased use of marijuana, LSD, and other drugs among youth, widespread public displays of nudity, and a new openness about sexuality contributed to the awareness of radical cultural change. Public interest in sex had been growing since the late 1940s and the number of novels, magazine articles, and advice books dealing with sexuality grew to epic proportions. Already in the 1950s, a number of famous novels that had previously been banned because of their sexual explicitness, such as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, began to be published in the United States. Advice books like Sex and the Single Girl (1962) by Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, and The Sensuous Woman (1969) by J. poured from the presses. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) initiated the revival of feminism and stimulated the discussion of sex and gender roles. Popular sociologists like Vance Packard in The Sexual Wilderness: The Contemporary Upheaval in Male-Female Relationships (1968) explored the interplay of both feminism and the sexual revolution.
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