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Sexual revolution
20th-century Western social movement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Sexual revolution (disambiguation).
The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the developed Western world from the 1960s to the 1970s.[1] Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships (primarily marriage).[2] The normalization of contraception and the pill, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed.[3][4]
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Part of the counterculture of the 1960s | |
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Date | 1960s–1970s |
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Location | Western world |
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Outcome | Wider acceptance of sexuality and contraception |
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