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.

Freudian school

Doctor Sigmund Freud of Vienna believed the roots of human behavior as being rooted in the libido. This new modern "science" of psychoanalysis revolutionized an entire culture's self image. Victorian prudishness was shoved aside by a new consciousness of a sex drive. Men had an Oedipus complex and women had penis envy according to Freud. The mother's breast was the source of all later erotic sensation. This new philosophy was the new intellectual and cultural underpinning ideology of the new age of sexual frankness. Nonetheless, much of his research is widely discredited by professionals in the field.

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Doctor - Sigmund Freud - Vienna - Libido - Psychoanalysis - Victorian prudishness - Consciousness - Sex drive - Oedipus complex - Penis envy - Erotic - Sensation - Philosophy - Ideology

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The Anarchist Freud scholars Otto Gross and especially Wilhelm Reich, who famously coined the phrase Sexual Revolution, developed a sociology of sex in the 20s and 30s.

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Anarchist - Otto Gross - Wilhelm Reich

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