sexual revolution
U.S. History
Sociology
Examples of sexual revolution in the following topics:
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Sexual Behavior Since Kinsey
- The Kinsey Report helped spark the sexual revolution, in which social regulations regarding sexual activity were loosened.
- While other sexualities were still stigmatized in most post-Kinsey environments, the sexual revolution was marked by popular acceptance of premarital sex.
- Kinsey's 1950s study of sexuality contributed to the sexual revolution of the 1960s in two ways.
- Another scientific product had a profound impact on the development of the sexual revolution: the development of oral contraception.
- Summarize the impact of the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution of the 1960s on American sexuality
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The Sexual Revolution
- The sexual revolution of the 1960s marked a shift in thinking about sexuality along with a growing acceptance of premarital sex and birth control.
- The quest for autonomy during this time was also characterized by changes toward sexual attitudes, generally referred to as the "sexual revolution."
- Like much of the radicalism of the 1960s, the sexual revolution was most apparent on university campuses.
- The Pill and the sexual revolution was therefore an important part of the drive for sexual equality in the 1960s.
- The Pill had a profound impact on feminism and the sexual revolution.
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Sexual Behavior: Kinsey's Study
- There, he became interested in human sexuality.
- The report refers to two different book publications based on his research of human sexuality: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).
- A mere decade after the reports were published, the first oral contraceptive was introduced and the sexual revolution began.
- The sexual revolution was a social movement from the 1960s to the 1980s that increased acceptance of sex outside of marriage.
- Analyze the impact of Kinsey's study of sexuality related to how it changed the public's perception of sexuality and how people are sexually socialized
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Gay and Lesbian Rights
- The sexual revolution and the feminist movement of the 1960s establish a climate that fostered the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
- Combined with the sexual revolution and the feminist movement of the 1960s, the counterculture helped establish a climate that fostered the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
- More often than not, it was seen as a malaise or mental illness instead of a legitimate sexual orientation.
- By 1974, the APA had ceased to classify homosexuality as a form of mental illness but continued to consider it a “sexual orientation disturbance.”
- By the late 1960s, cities across the country held gay rights demonstrations to oppose discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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Cultural Influences on Sexual Motivation
- Sexual motivation, often referred to as libido, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.
- This supervision placed more regulations on sexuality and sexual behaviors.
- With the advent of patriarchal societies, gender roles around sexuality became much more stringent, and sexual norms began focusing on sexual possessiveness and the control of female sexuality.
- Since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the United States, many changes in sexual standards have occurred.
- Social movements in the latter half of the 20th century such as the sexual revolution, the rise of feminism, and the advancement of LGBTQ rights have helped to bring about massive changes in social perception of sexuality.
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Human Sexuality and Culture
- "Human sexuality" refers to people's sexual interest in and attraction to others; it is the capacity to have erotic or sexual feelings and experiences.
- Each society, however, interprets sexuality and sexual activity in different ways.
- This supervision placed more regulations on sexuality and sexual behaviors.
- Since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the United States, many changes in sexual standards have occurred.
- Social movements in the latter half of the 20th century, such as the sexual revolution, the rise of feminism, and the advancement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights have helped to bring about massive changes in social perceptions of sexuality.
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Social Context and Sexual Behavior
- Social context influences sexual behavior; sexuality is expressed and understood through socialized processes.
- Sexual behavior refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.
- Human sexual activity has sociological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral and biological elements, including physiological processes such as the reproductive mechanism, the sex drive and pathology; sexual intercourse and sexual behavior in all its forms; and personal bonding and shared emotions during sexual activity.
- Since sexuality is expressed through means learned by socialization, social context is bound to influence sexual behavior.
- For example, sexual activity with a person below some age of consent and sexual assault in general are criminal offenses in most jurisdictions.
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Sexual Orientation
- Sexual orientation refers to enduring emotional, romantic and sexual attraction to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither.
- Sexual identity and sexual behavior are closely related to sexual orientation, but they are distinguishable.
- Sexual identity refers to an individual's conception of their own sexuality, while sexual behavior limits one's understanding of sexuality to behaviors performed.
- The primary tension in conversations about sexual orientation addresses whether sexual orientation is static or fluid, whether one is born with an immutable sexual orientation, or whether one develops sexual orientation.
- Explain the development of sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual) in terms of both static and fluid sexuality
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Sexual Violence
- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- Forms of sexual violence include: rape by strangers, marital rape, date rape, war rape, unwanted sexual harassment, demanding sexual favors, sexual abuse of children, sexual abuse of disabled individuals, forced marriage, child marriage, denial of the right to use contraception, denial of the right to take measures to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases, forced abortion, genital mutilation, forced circumcision, and forced prostitution.
- On a global scale, international sexual violence is difficult to track because of extreme variation in sexual mores.
- Sexual violence is severly under reported.
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Sexual Harrassment
- Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or unwelcome/inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
- Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
- Harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
- Sexual harassment can includes a range of behavior from mild transgressions (like jokes or innuendos) to sexual abuse or sexual assault, but laws against sexual harassment typically don't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or minor isolated incidents.
- Strong, the Army's campaign to combat sexual harassment and sexual assaults.