Aside from the growth of sex as a consumer item and the increase in premarital sex and teenage pregnancies, the long-term consequences of the sexual revolution remained unclear. Most Americans continued to practice monogamous heterosexuality, usually within marriage. Sexual explorers of the 1970s generally settled down to monogamous relationships in the 1980s. Even Tony Manero, the barhopping sexual buccaneer portrayed by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977), ended the film disgusted with the meaninglessness of the New York singles scene. Kinsey Institute researchers revealed in a 1989 report that the sexual revolution had not been as common as the media and its critics believed. The researchers could find no revolution in American attitudes toward sexuality, and they noted that many groups remained hostile to sexual permissiveness, especially Fundamentalists and pious Christians, those with less education and less sexual experience before marriage, rural people, and those from...