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From Prudery to 'Freedom': A Brief Review of the Sexual Revolution |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: J. Gordon Muir |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 8,396 Words, 51,652 Characters |
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Revolutions often produce chaos without delivering the freedoms the participants were led to expect. The sexual revolution (which some say began with Alfred Kinsey) has been a case in point. The social consequences are everyday news: teenage pregnancy, abortion, and parents (often single and impoverished); unwanted children; child abuse; and the list goes on. The medical consequences are equally devastating: several venereal disease epidemics (largely unrecognized by those unaffected) bringing untold suffering and costing the U.S. economy several billion dollars each year. There are additional effects in terms of divorce, abandoned families, disturbed children, and the host of social and psychological consequences that follows these traumas.
What happened in the rush of sexual freedo...
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...heritage. But they are not unique to that heritage.
As Will and Ariel Durant point out in The Lessons of History (Simon and Schuster, 1968), a larger knowledge of history stresses the universality of these codes and "concludes to their necessity." They are actually matters of health more than morality, which is another way of saying that health and real morality are much the same thing.
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