By Alan Chang, Nick DeBellis, Matthew Shum, Anthony Kuo, Dake Ying 1960’s Sexual Revolution By Alan Chang, Nick DeBellis, Matthew Shum, Anthony Kuo, Dake Ying

Impetus More relaxed sexual attitude which spawned from the rebellious attitude of the youth during the 1960s. Introduction of birth pills and contraceptives. Abortions made more accessible (1973 Roe v. Wade) Griswold v. Connecticut affirmed that people had the right to privacy and encouraged people to be more liberal in their sexual relationships.

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) – women should stand up and be able to say no 1960 – FDA licenses birth control pill Outlawed by Connecticut and New York in 1965 Gives rise to Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) Right to “marital privacy” Gives rise to Roe v. Wade (1973) Outlaws legislation prohibiting abortion in the first trimester (three months)

Key Figures Alfred C. Kinsey – published a few books that helped sparked the sexual revolution Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus – helped invent the oral contraceptive G.D. Searle & Company – released first commercial contraceptive in 1960

Key Figures (continued) Hippies – embraced the sexual revolution Filmmakers and even Playboy – public sexual themes

Sexual Revolution Effects The development of the contraceptive pill, known colloquially as “The Pill”, helped to encourage sexual liberation and freedom. With this new sexual attitude, pre-martial sex became more common, as pregnancy was no longer a factor. Traditional sexual values were replaced with new ideas of sexuality; strict bounds of age and sexual orientation began to lose value. Proliferation of women in professional careers, as children would not longer impede their education.

The Pill became the subject of much controversy after it was approved by the FDA in 1960. In 1965, both Conneticut and New York outlawed contraception. In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court ruled that the First Ammendment guaranteed a right to privacy. This included a right of marital (and later non-marital) use of contraception. Betty Friedman’s Feminine Mystique (1963) helped women to accept sex as a social norm, encouraging enjoyment over the moral obligation to be dissatisfied with sex, which was not of the nature of the domestic “housewife”. Sex began to be portrayed more openly in films and music; the Hollywood executives began to accept the values of a changing society, opposed to the heavily censored films of the 20’s and 30’s, while musicians often used discreet or implied sexual references in song lyrics. The sexual freedom the 60’s witnessed helped to encourage sexual promiscuity and therefore what many still considered inappropriate: out-of-wedlock births, STDs (there were 4 hazardous STDs in the 60’s, today there are 24), teen pregnancy, and divorce rate increased considerably. In post-1960’s societies marriage has declined by a third, divorce has doubled, and the number of children in single parent families has tripled.

Demographics Teenage Pregnancies on the rise Undertaken by younger generation, a.k.a Baby Boom Children Born With Single Families White Children  1970, 5.7%  2000, 28.5% Black Children   1970, 37.6%  2000, 68.2% Abortion  1970, 4.5% 2000, 19.4%