Sexual Revolution - Overview

Overview

The term "Sexual Revolution" has been used at least since the late 1910s and is often attributed as being influenced by Freud's writing on sexual liberation and psychosexual issues.

Nisker cites the San Francisco Oracle, which described the 1967 Human Be-In as a "spiritual revolution". In the late 1970s and 1980s, newly won sexual freedoms were exploited by big businesses looking to capitalize on a more open society, with the advent of public and hardcore pornography. Historian David Allyn argues that the sexual revolution was a time of "coming-out": about premarital sex, masturbation, erotic fantasies, pornography use, and sexuality.