“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.” WorldMayRealityMightAbleLastsHumanityPoliticsSexProcessWomenDealsRaceHalfRevolutionBearsAimWaveAccomplishDesertSexismRetiringHarshSubordinationSexual RevolutionHarsh Reality Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.” ArtSeemsSpiritualitySexViolenceRevolutionPromiseDrugWanderDeliverance Author:Mason Cooley
“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.” ThinkingWellsStillsTwoMatterHardCharacterLanguageSexWomenInterestingHalfRevolutionLimitsBehaviorDecadesStatementsCondemningConnotationPromiscuousSexual Revolution Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.” MenBelieveChildrenSaidSexVirtueRevolutionLaysMannersEstatesBandagesGirth Book:Emerson in His Journals Source: Emerson in His Journals
“The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.” WantHumansWarFactsBigsGovernmentFacesSpiritualValuesSocialSexGoalRightsMiddleRevolutionMajorityCivil RightsOppositionBrotherhoodSweepingFacetsUpheavalSocial RevolutionSpiritual Values Author:Johnny Carson
“I sort of feel sorry for gays being the last ones at the sexual revolution window. We've had liberalizing rules on divorce. We've had the sexual revolution. We've had, you know, the pill, and burning bras and rampant premarital sex and polymorphous perversity.” KnowsFeelsLastsSexRevolutionGayWindowSorryDivorceBurningPillsBrasPerversitySexual Revolution Author:Ann Coulter
“The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.” FirstsSexCenturyRevolutionFirst TimeFemaleHomosexual20th CenturyEmancipationDeviantsSexual Revolution Author:Volkmar Sigusch