sexual revolution
English
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Noun
[edit]sexual revolution (plural sexual revolutions)
- 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.
- 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
- The sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the American family: increasing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, and single-parent families.
Translations
[edit]period in which attitudes towards sexual behavior undergo a substantial change
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