These changes were due to “the rising age of marriage” the “educational convergence of women and men”, “women’s growing autonomy”, contraception in the 60’s, and “the sheer rise in the absolute number of singles ans the baby boom generation reached sexual maturity” (Zinn 2015: 231). After the 1960s there was a drastic change in American Culture and how we viewed sexuality. There was a rise the amount of premarital sex and sexual images became a facet of everyday life. Sex had become the norm. All of these had an effect on the norms of the period. For example, with the invention of contraceptive pill, many women could have sex without fear of becoming pregnant and a single mother. The revolution “redefined sexual activity as a right of individuals and not merely as a means for reproduction or even marital intimacy” (Zinn 2015:
These changes were due to “the rising age of marriage” the “educational convergence of women and men”, “women’s growing autonomy”, contraception in the 60’s, and “the sheer rise in the absolute number of singles ans the baby boom generation reached sexual maturity” (Zinn 2015: 231). After the 1960s there was a drastic change in American Culture and how we viewed sexuality. There was a rise the amount of premarital sex and sexual images became a facet of everyday life. Sex had become the norm. All of these had an effect on the norms of the period. For example, with the invention of contraceptive pill, many women could have sex without fear of becoming pregnant and a single mother. The revolution “redefined sexual activity as a right of individuals and not merely as a means for reproduction or even marital intimacy” (Zinn 2015: