When will the damn sexual revolution fade?

Question

With all of the trouble and epidemics that happened as a result of this “revolution”, you’d think it would have faded by now. Yet people still continue to carry the same old selfish childish and hedonistic attitudes and act like it’s the 60’s, blind to the harm that it has caused, and mindlessly label anyone who can see beyond the lies as a “prude”. You’d think all of the broken families and VD epidemics (just to name a few problems it’s caused) would be enough to get the point across that casual sex is way more trouble than it’s worth. And morals and social attitudes are cyclical right? So how much longer until this hippie circus ends? 20 years? 50 years? Or will we just repeat the same mistakes Rome did and delude ourselves until our society finally collapses?

"How are moral laws supposed to help society?" LMFAO

Some intelligent answers please and not predictable smartass answers. Oh who am I kidding this is the Internet.

Answer 1

Casual sex has endured since the garden of eden and there is no end in site.

Answer 2

The sexual revolution benefited women.
It was a reaction to the "Victorian" attitudes about sex--World War 2 and the `60's opened the door wide.
It granted sexual freedom with the advent of " Birth Control Pills." It has very little to do with Hippies--Hippies are now the very establishment, they fought against.
This has more to do with promiscuity and morality than anything else. In this day and age---casual sex is the norm. C'mon--the net is filled with "hook-up" sites and there are people willing to participate. You hit the nail right- on -the -head, when you drew the analogy of our current moral norms to those of Ancient Rome. Everything American( current era) is similar the the decline of Ancient Rome.
The genie is out of the bottle---there's only one way to reign this in----the imposition of a "Moral Majority" or a Dictatorial Moralist that will impose some form of hegemony on society at large.
Jeez--sounds like the AntiChrist are sumthin!
This is deep---great question!

Answer 3

Your premise that "morals and social attitudes are cyclical" is probably wrong. Since the Industrial Revolution began, there has been a fairly steadily decline in the power of family responsibilities over individuals, and with that comes looser social restrictions on sexuality.

I hardly see a "hippy circus" in the United States to day, by any means. Divorce may be higher and average age of marriage later, sure. However, the passion on both sides of the same sex marriage debate shows that monogamy and commitment and family are all still very important ideas to many, many people. Our ideas about those things are changing, but those restrictions on sexual behavior are not going away.

There could theoretically be a lot MORE sexual freedom in our society then there is right now. Its hard to know what directions things will be moving in.

Answer 4

You know, I was born in 1946. So I grew up in the 50's & 60"s. I was NOT promiscous, ever. You seem to think that everyone from that time period was like that. Not at all. Hippies may have expressed free love, yeah. but not everyone felt like that. I was a virgin when I married because My mother and father put the fear of God in us if we had sex before marriage. But what about today. 80's 90's,&2000 When did AIDES appear? Not in the 50's or 60's. It was late 70's, more in the 80's and even more in 90's. So I guess no matter what decade people are from the bottom line is, when will they ever learn?

Answer 5

You make some very valid points but you sound like you are surrounded by people with a different attitude from your own. There are people out there with moral standards raising their children to be decent people with concern for others. Find them as your friends/associates. Don't waste your time on losers.

One thing I learned from a doctor. In the 60's everyone was having sex with everyone else. So why weren't STD's as prevalent as now? Because most of the people were college age or older. Children are having sex at much younger ages now and a girl's cervex is not matured, hence, more prone to STD's. Add to that a teen's belief that they are invincible. It's very important for our daughters to know it is wise both morally and physically to wait for sex.

Answer 6

I am 58 years old and I lived in Miami Florida during the whole hippy and free love thing and I was a virgin at 20 when I finally gave in to the man I thought I was going to marry.He broke off our engagement after he got what he wanted. I was so heart broken & felt like I was used goods. I contunued to have the no sex untill marriage thought of mind until today. I am a prude and proud of it.I agree with you that things were better before this casual sex started happining. Now it is common for a 14 year old girl to be a mother. My 14 year old grand son tells me there is one girl who he go's to school with who is also 14 and pregnant for her 2nd baby! He is mad because his parents won't let him have a girlfriend yet.I agree with my son and daughter-in-law. He needs to wait at least 2 more years.

Answer 7

HERE IS WHAT WIKIPEDIA HAS TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT

The sexual revolution refers to a change in sexual morality and sexual behavior throughout the Western world. In general use, the term refers to a later trend of equalizing sexual behavior which occurred primarily during the 1960s, although the term has been used at least since the late 1920s.

The term appeared as early as 1929; the book Is Sex Necessary?, by Thurber & White, has a chapter titled The Sexual Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene.

One suggested trigger for the modern revolution was the development of the birth control pill in 1960, which gave women access to easy and reliable contraception. Other data suggest the "revolution" was more directly influenced by the financial independence gained by many women who entered the workforce during and after World War II, making the revolution more about individual equality rather than biological independence. Many people, however, feel that one specific cause cannot be selected for this large phenomenon.[1]

Some historians argue that sexual revolution was not a complete break from earlier Western sexual attitudes but rather a liberalization after a conservative period that only existed between the 1930s and 1950s. They note that the Cold War sparked a socially conformist identity which tended to be self-conscious of its appearance to the outside world. Within the United States, this conformity took on puritanical overtones which contradicted natural or even, ironically, culturally-established human sexual behaviors. It was this period of Cold War puritanism, some say, which logically led to a cultural rebellion in the form of the "sexual revolution".

The extent to which the sexual revolution involved major changes in sexual behavior, however, is questionable. Many observers have suggested 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. Historian David Allyn argues it was a time of "coming-out": about premarital sex, masturbation, erotic fantasies, pornography use, and homosexuality.[2]

It is clear that sexual behaviour did change radically for the vast majority of women, but only a generation after the "revolution" had begun. Women reaching sexual maturity after about 1984 have behaviours much more in common with the men of a generation earlier. Some had more partners (two to three times), starting at an earlier age (by three to five years), than women of the generation of the 1970s. Nevertheless this rather radical change in actual behaviour is rarely reported on, being regarded as no longer newsworthy.

Answer 8

un fortunately as long as the media exists so will the so called sexual revolution,back in the 60s the media took a free love belief and turned it in to a free sex belief, a true hippie believed in being free to love who ever they wanted, not have sex with whom ever. in America we were told not to care about those who were different then we were(blacks,Indians etc.) un like the religion we were taught. so the blame for the problems of the so called sexual revolution should not be placed on the hippie, but the media and the freaks that used the belief of the freedom to love as the freedom to have indiscriminate sex.

Answer 9

I 100% agree, and I couldnt anymore! Your right. It causes alot of problems for more then just yourself.

And the person who said "how is imposing your morals on anyone else helping anything"...

How about, if people actually listened and didnt have casual sex there would be a limited amount of.... STD's, ABORTION, BROKEN FAMILY's, ect. TONS of stuff....

Answer 10

Yes; in related news, the damn crack epidemic continues unabated