You lost me - I always thought the "sexual revolution" was a brand created in the 60's when the baby-boomers invented sex, the birth control pill, and independent thought. Goodness knows before then there were no unwed mothers, abused abandoned children, promiscuity, or infanticide, and STD's only happened to dirty people in leper colonies who ran out of Trojans.
What happened in the 1960's was that a signficant segement of the popular culture became convinced that sexual promiscuity was a good rather than a bad thing. This was a somewhat new thing -- previously, all the things you are describing were seen as social evils (and tended to be described in the terms you just used).
What is happening today, I think, is that in the hothouse leftist world on campus, sexual promiscuity is being considered so normal that it has actually began to make it significantly more difficult for people interested in long-term relationships (marriage, generally) to find mates in college. As a result, some women are becoming L.U.G.'s (Lesbians Until Graduation) to avoid the social pressures towards heterosexual promiscuity.
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Date: 2007-03-06 09:40 pm (UTC)What happened in the 1960's was that a signficant segement of the popular culture became convinced that sexual promiscuity was a good rather than a bad thing. This was a somewhat new thing -- previously, all the things you are describing were seen as social evils (and tended to be described in the terms you just used).
What is happening today, I think, is that in the hothouse leftist world on campus, sexual promiscuity is being considered so normal that it has actually began to make it significantly more difficult for people interested in long-term relationships (marriage, generally) to find mates in college. As a result, some women are becoming L.U.G.'s (Lesbians Until Graduation) to avoid the social pressures towards heterosexual promiscuity.