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Timeline of the Sexual Revolution
by Robert Estes [who is Robert Estes?, Google came up with 'nothing' Oct 2004]1886
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathica Sexualis, 237 classic case histories of lustmurder, necrophilia, pederasty, bestiality, transvestism, rape, mutilation, sado-masochism, exhibitionism and other psychosexual proclivities. Considered one of the most important documents in humankind's modern efforts to understand itself.
1897
- Havelock Ellis publishes first volume of The Psychology of Sex, an investigation of human sexual practices. Banned by judge in Britain as "filth masquerading as science."
1920
- U.S. ratifies 19th Amendment to Constitution, granting the vote to women after a struggle of over 70 years.
- Freud publishes Beyond The Pleasure Principle.
1923
- Margaret Sanger leads first birth control conference.
- Initial submission of Equal Rights Amendment to Congress.
- Freud publishes Ego and the Id.
1935
- First center for research on sexuality founded in Berlin.
1939
- Nazi's burn down sexuality research center.
1941-1945
- During WWII, many women ("Rosie the Riveter")
perform "male jobs" in war effort.
1942
- Alfred C. Kinsey founds the University of Indiana's Institute
for Sex Research.
1948
- Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human
Male.
1951
- The Sex Habits of American Women by Fritz Wittels,
M.D. is published posthumously (just a year after the author's
death).
- George Jorgensen becomes Christine Jorgensen in first
successful sex-change operation.
1953
- Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
- Playboy begins publication.
1960
- US Food and Drug Administration approves birth control
pills.
1963
- Betty Friedan publishes Feminine Mystique, which
challenges Freud's thoughts on the roles of women.
1964
- Civil Rights Act outlaws job discrimination and sexual
harassment
1966
- Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Response,
the first physiological study of human sexuality.
- Betty Friedan founds National Organization for Women (NOW).
1970
Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Inadequacy discusses
sexual "surrogate partners" for first time.
1972
- Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Phyllis
Schlafly organizes Eagle Forum and Stop ERA in opposition
to amendment.
1973
- Supreme Court legalizes abortion in Roe v. Wade.
- American Psychiatric Association decides that homosexuality
is not a mental illness.
- Playgirl begins publication.
1982
- ERA fails as time deadline for ratification passes.
1981
- AIDS first found in US patients.
1987
- Condom commercial airs in San Francisco - the first large
city to have such a commercial air.
1989
- Denmark legalizes homosexual marriage.
2000
- Vermont grants gay and lesbian couples a parallel but
separate legal option called civil unions. The civil unions,
which are not recognized by other states and confer no marriage
benefits under federal law, nonetheless entitle same-sex
couples to receive tax benefits and inheritance rights and
to make medical decisions on behalf of a partner.
2003
- Under Dr. David Handelsman leadership, Australian researchers
at the Anzac Institute at Sydney's Concord Hospital produce
the world's first oral male contraceptive.
By Year (1900-1999)
Sex in mediaSexual Revolution (2003) - Jeffrey Escoffier
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If the late eighteenth century saw the start of the Industrial Revolution, then it can be argued that the late twentieth century kicked off the Sexual Revolution. Sexual behavior and beliefs that had long been constrained by silence suddenly were the focus of intense scrutiny, championed by Kinsey's ground-breaking reports on human sexuality. How our culture has adapted to new freedoms of expression is the subject in Escoffier's anthology, which chronicles the work of pioneering scientists who studied sexuality and inspiring artists who responded to it. Examining virtually every aspect of sexual behavior, from orgasms to open marriage to obscenity, Escoffier has created a definitive review of the most influential writing of the last half-century. A captivating and comprehensive investigation of an always fascinating aspect of human behavior. Carol Haggas
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About the Author
Jeffrey Escoffier has written on politics, sexuality and dance. He is the author of a biography of John Maynard Keynes and of American Homo: Community and Perversity. He recently edited a book on the choreography of Mark Morris with Matthew Lore. He has taught the history and politics of sexuality at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, Rutgers University, and the New School University in New York.
Book Description
What does "sexual revolution" mean? When, how, and why did it begin (if it did)? What, if anything, did it change? And what hope do we have that its ideals of equality and pleasure can be realized? Collected here is the most provocative, entertaining, and essential writing documenting the immense, contradictory, and incomplete process of the evolution of our attitudes about sexuality and gender. From Susan Sontag’s "Pornographic Imagination" to Al Goldstein’s notorious review of Deep Throat, writing from the sexual revolution ranges from inspirational to outrageous. Sexual Revolution explores the cultural, economic, political, and moral consequences of new ways of sexual thinking and behaving – Reclaiming the female orgasm and challenging the double standard; Celebrating open marriage and homosexuality; Defying taboo and censorship; From Anne Koedt’s classic "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" to Norman Mailer’s "The Homosexual Villain;" From Helen Gurley Brown to Lenny Bruce, from Freud and Wilhelm Reich to Foucault, here are the voices of those who registered and provoked popular consciousness and transformed how we think about sex. Today, Dr. Phil talks about oral sex among grade-schoolers on Oprah and pornstar Jenna Jameson gets a six-figure advance for her memoirs—something has changed—but Sexual Revolution reminds us that our sexuality remains a bitterly contested battleground. With Selections by Erica Jong, Lawrence Lipton, Masters and Johnson, Betty Dodson, Audre Lorde, Gay Talese, Gayle Rubin, Timothy Leary, Henry Miller, Huey Newton, Jill Johnston, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir and many others.
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