sexual revolution

Noun

Meaning

A period in which attitudes towards sexual behavior undergo a substantial change, usually in the direction of increased liberality.

A specific period in the 1960s and 1970s during which such change is said to have occurred in Western Europe and North America.

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Examples

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. Denis Leary

The backseat produced the sexual revolution. Jerry Rubin

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. Kate Millett

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. Maggie Gallagher

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor. Sally Kirkland

Liberals' only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That's their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that. Ann Coulter

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