2006-10-31 09:40:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
I would argue that there is a sexual counterrevolution. The United States is more conservative now than it has been since the 1950s. Abstinence only sex education, restrictive abortion laws, public outcries at things like the Clinton Scandal. We are living in a sexually conservative age. I'm not sure that broken families and STDs have as much do with it as religious and political backlash though.
2006-10-31 22:03:03 · answer #1 · answered by ConstantCupcake 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A) It did. The US has been having a conservative backlash from the liberal revolutions of the sixties and seventies, and the morality nonsense has gotten worse than ever recently. Despite the fact that it doesn't help, abstinence-only education has gotten more and more funding. Also, remember Nipplegate?
B) STD epidemics are nothing new. According to Victorian-era doctors, something ridiculously high percentage of people were infected with syphilis. Fifty percent? I can't remember. Gonnorhea, HPV, chlamydia- these have all been around for a while. Yes, AIDS is new, but STDs in general are not.
C) Broken families are also not new, and, being a base-born child myself, I doubt they are as much of a plague as is suggested. Yeah, unplanned pregnancies suck, but they do not necessarily create a life of sullen juvenile delinquency or abject poverty. Just so you know.
2006-10-31 19:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by random6x7 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do think a sexual counterrevolution has begun (at least here in the US). From what I see, many people are far more particular and conservative than they were even ten years ago.
The twenty-somethings are definately less free with their bodies than us thirty-somehtings were and we were less free than the fourty and fifty-somehtings because of the threat about AIDS.... so it seems the pattern is following the route to less and less physical contact.
It reminds me of that movie "Demolition Man" where people in the future don't actually touch to have intercourse, they use virtual reality. Seemed crazy at the time the movie came out (1993), but now it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.
2006-11-01 11:07:29 · answer #3 · answered by mutherwulf 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, one really has nothing to do with the other.. That's like asking is eating cheese and ride a bike harmful to your feet.
The revolution is there, but mainstream doesn't want to look at it. It's like the crazy relative in the attic, they all know he's there, they just don't talk about or acknowledge it. Mainstream doesn't want to see the underground rebellion.
But bet your bottom dollar that there's a lot of folks in the "mainstream" who are secretly part of that revolution. They just don't want others to know.
2006-10-31 20:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by Cat Lover 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's easier to do what feels good and wallow in your filth than to climb out of it and become greater than the previous generation.
2006-10-31 17:43:27 · answer #5 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they did, US society is more conservative that it was in the 60s
2006-10-31 17:45:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋