The sexual revolution (1960s)

[_Tarski]

Good thing? Bad thing? Mixed bag?

[_Bond...James Bond]

Good thing...women got out of the kitchen and bought miniskirts.

Bad thing...women left kitchen and can't make me sammiches anymore.

[_Ray A]

Mixed bag. An interesting definition from Answers.com:

While the extent to which the sexual revolution involved major changes in sexual behavior is debated, many observers suggest that the main change was not that people had more sex or different types of sex, it was simply that they talked about it more openly than previous generations had done - which in itself can be described as revolutionary by supportive historians.

[_bcspace]

Good thing...women got out of the kitchen and bought miniskirts.

Down with haltertops, up with miniskirts!
;)

But seriously, I think it marks an era of renewed effort by Satan to deceive the elect.

[_ludwigm]

I don't know why should one incorporate the satan.


Nota bene for me the usage of that word (Satan) in Mormonism is displeasing.
Yes, generally we write "God", with capital and without definite article. This is kind of honor/reverence.

Many times, I write "You" instead of "you" even I don't agree with.

Is the satan worth of the same reverence (or were if he/she/it were existing) ?
Is the satan worth of anything? Really he/she/it is (=were) a hired gun to do God's dirty jobs.

To fear? OK, do it if You want.
To revere? To refer to him/her/it as "Satan"?

[_Pokatator]

I don't know why should one incorporate the satan.


Nota bene for me the usage of that word (Satan) in Mormonism is displeasing.
Yes, generally we write "God", with capital and without definite article. This is kind of honor/reverence.

Many times, I write "You" instead of "you" even I don't agree with.

Is the satan worth of the same reverence (or were if he/she/it were existing) ?
Is the satan worth of anything? Really he/she/it is (=were) a hired gun to do God's dirty jobs.

To fear? OK, do it if You want.
To revere? To refer to him/her/it as "Satan"?

I very much agree.
Thank you, Ludwigm

[_Moniker]

What sparked this topic??

I think overall it's positive. Divorce became more widely accepted -- which is NOT a negative necessarily. Putting off marriage became widely accepted (I think that's a positive, yet, know others would likely disagree), women's sexuality came to the forefront, pornography was hashed out in the courts and people could start to talk frankly about sex --also in literary or artistic way, sexual abuse came to the forefront as people felt more comfortable talking (we see the effects of this on the board where women openly talk about their childhood sexual abuse -- THIS is amazing to me and would NEVER have been imaginable without the sexual revolution), women were able to explore their sexuality and were seen as capable of enjoying sex -- not merely for procreation.

I think it was overall a positive. I think there are behaviors that individually may be harmful to people, yet, the ability to be frank and honest about sexuality is a definite positive. No hiding in the shadows of shame.

[_Droopy]

A God forsaken nightmare of social disintegration and the descaralization and trivialization of the most intimate human bond. The more open attitudes regarding sex and sexual problems were, to some extent, a good thing, but could have come about without the assaults upon and the destruction of marriage, the family, and the vicious hostility to children that still persists today. The movement was, for the most part, a phenomena of the Left, and hence, ultimately a tool of Kulturkampf against the normative Judeo/Christian culture.

Another negative was that this was the beginning of our disastrously low birth rates, which have created a looming economic crisis in the not to distant future (which wil be upon western Europe before the chickens come home to roost here).

[_Droopy]

Another thing that I really miss, culture wide, that was severely weakened and marginalized, was the whole notion of romantic love. I fear that, for most of the generations antecedent to mine, many within them will never understand that. Our media is almost bereft of such sentiments now.

Its just all about 'hooking up" and getting into bed now, and sharing combined incomes.

So tragic.

[_Moniker]

never mind - delete