Sexual revolution

The sexual revolution was a substantial change in sexual morality and sexual behavior throughout the West in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The trigger for the revolution was the development of the birth control pill in 1960, which gave women access to easy and reliable contraception.

Free love

Beginning in San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a new culture of "free love" with tens of thousands of young people becoming "hippies" arose who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex as part of ordinary student life. This was part of a counter culture that exists to the present. By the start of the 1970s it was acceptable for colleges to allow co-educational housing where male and female students commingled freely.

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1960s - Free love - Hippies - Love - Sex - Counter culture - 1970s

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Free Love continued in different forms throughout the 1970s and ended abruptly when the public first became aware of AIDS, a deadly sexually-transmitted disease, in the mid 1980s.

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1970s - AIDS - 1980s

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