Whatever happened to the campus sexual revolution?

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#1 Submitted by EvalHum2 on August 25, 2016 - 2:21pm

Your writers overlook one factor summed up by the expression of a (female) friend who referred to "the pre-aids days". With the pill, we were the generation in the 70s that ignored consequences of sexual promiscuity as there was apparently no risk, until the risk arrived. But by then we were all married and serious academics.

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Lincoln Allison takes a fond look back at the permissiveness prevalent at universities in the 1960s and 1970s, while a more ambivalent Susan Bassnett recalls a reality that didn’t quite live up to the nostalgic hype

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Whatever happened to the campus sexual revolution?

Lincoln Allison takes a fond look back at the permissiveness prevalent at universities in the 1960s and 1970s, while a more ambivalent Susan Bassnett recalls a reality that didn’t quite live up to the nostalgic hype

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