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.

Modern revolutions

The Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century and the growth of science and technology, medicine and health care, resulted in better contraceptives being manufactured. Advances in the manufacture and production of rubber made possible the design and production of condoms that could be used by hundreds of millions of men and women to prevent pregnancy at little cost. Advances in steel production and immunology made abortion readily available. Advances in chemistry, pharmacology, and knowledge of biology, and human physiology and all sorts of new drugs led to the discovery and perfection of oral contraceptives also known as "The Pill". New drugs like Viagra helped impotent men have an erection and increased the potency of others. Purchasing an aphrodisiac and various sex toys became "normal". Sado-masochism ("S&M") gained popularity, and "no-fault" unilateral divorce became legal and easier to obtain in many countries during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Industrial Revolution - Nineteenth century - Science - Technology - Medicine - Health care - Contraceptives - Rubber - Condoms - Pregnancy - Steel - Immunology - Abortion - Chemistry - Pharmacology - Biology - Physiology - Drugs - Oral contraceptives - The Pill - Viagra - Impotent - Erection - Aphrodisiac - Sex toy - Sado-masochism - S&M - Divorce - 1960s - 1970s

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All these developments took place alongside and combined with an increase in world literacy and decline in religious observances. Old values such as the notion of "be fruitful and multiply" rooted in the Bible, for example, were cast aside as people continued to feel alienated from the past and adopted the life-styles of modernizing westernized cultures.

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Literacy - Westernized

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Another thing that helped bring about this more modern revolution of sexual freedom was the writings of Herbert Marcuse and William Riech who took the philosophy of Marx and other such philosphers and mixed together this chant for freedom of sexual rights and release in our modern culture.

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Herbert Marcuse - William Riech

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