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What does "sexual revolution" mean? When, how, and why did it begin? What, if anything, did it change? And what hope do we have that its ideals of equality and pleasure can be realized?

From Susan Sontag’s "Pornographic Imagination" to Al Goldstein’s notorious review of Deep Throat, 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; and defying taboo and censorship. With Anne Koedt’s classic "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" and Norman Mailer’s "The Homosexual Villain;" Helen Gurley Brown to Lenny Bruce—to name a few—this book features 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 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.

This collection includes selections by Erica Jong, Lawrence Lipton, Masters and Johnson, Betty Dodson, Audre Lorde, Gay Talese, Gayle Rubin, Timothy Leary, Henry Miller, Huey Newton, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others. ... Read more

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Pure Orgone
This remarkable book is a collection of essays from some of the most valuable and visionary intellects of the twentieth-century. They're all talking about sex which is a pretty universally interesting subject. Even right-wing Chritians do it from time to time in order to have children.But this book goes way beyond procreation, locating sex in a social context and showing how it became radicalized, politicized, and changed society as a result.The many great writers from Simone de Beauvoir, to Carl Jung, to Susan Sontag, share their thoughts, and the resulting collection catalogues the leaps into liberation that were the hallmarks of the time;from women reclaiming pornography, to gays in revolt against monogamy, to the average Joe feeling a tad more...experimental.Jeffrey Escoffier has done a terrific job in presenting this work with passioanate enthusiasm and editting it with impecable taste.It's enough to send a nun over the convent wall.

Pure Orgone
This book is truly wonderful.It is an excellent collection of incisive essays from some of the twentieth centuries most valuable and visionary intellects.And they're all thinking about sex which, let's face it, is a pretty universally interesting subject.Even right-wing Christians do it occasionally to make children. The writings merrily leap beyond procreation, locate sex in the political-social and intellectual arena, and focus on the hot revolutionary decade from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies.Amidst the steam they document the tremendous strides of liberation taking place -- women becoming orgasmic, gays becoming radicalized, and the average joe experiencing a greater sense of experimentation.It all an exhillarating read. Jeffrey Escoffier's presentation is articulate and passionate and his choice of material is impeccable.It's enough to make a nun leap over a convent wall.

The Sexual Revolution:Yet Another Utopian Heresy.
Why give this book five stars?It is a catalogue of the nihilistic heresy of the twentieth century--a democratic utopia fueled by an orgy of sexual expression and "free love."What is the sexual revolution actually revolting against?Traditional Christian views on morality and along with it, societal and familiar structure.The worst part of this is many people in Third World, non-Christian states view this type of license as representative of America and the West in general, when in fact this is nothing further from the truth.An overemphasis on sexuality took off with Freud and his questionable theories in the late 1800s.The sexual revolution started swinging in the fifties and early sixties as more or less male fashionable dalliance idealized in _Playboy_ magazine.It later became embroiled with accompanying liberalizing factors in Western society during the sixties such as the civil rights movement and spilled over into feminism and the campaign for "gay" rights.This whole thing is anti-Christian, anti-patriarchal, anti-family and anti-Western to the core.It is constantly bombarding the world's populaces who are (un?)fortunate enough to be in some way to experience the television set, rock n' roll CD or Hollywood blockbuster movie.The sexual revolution is at the end of the day a fraud.No sooner than women began to spill into the workplace there was plenty of money to be made by lawyers specializing in sexual harassment lawsuits.Some progress humanity has made.The sexual revolution has its antecedents in history.A few ancient Gnostic sects, because they believed the material world inherently evil, indulged in the pleasures of the flesh because it supposedly did not affect the state of one's spiritual being, a few well documented here.When Christ is ignored, man will instead look for earthly means to bring about the Kingdom of God and eternal bliss on merely human terms.Christ's Kingdom is "not of this world" and will not be experienced in this life, but only in the Age to Come.In the case of the sexual revolution a millennial utopia is attained though the grossest desires of the flesh.Has the sexual revolution failed?Well, people are just as disgruntled as they ever were.At least Marx's economic utopia of the proletariat looked serious and businesslike.It's best to stick to traditional, moderate sexual values, which are especially important to maintain in the face of the world's dissolution and media propaganda.If you want the obscene details then look no further than _Sexual Revolution_.Everybody with some opinion and agenda are mentioned somewhere in here, from Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Norman Mailer to _Time_ Magazine, Larry Flint, Susan Sontag, etc. ... Read more

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Fear of Flying Erica Jong
It was the best book I have ever read, and it is so true.I think everyone can relate with what she is talking baout. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 665 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 1993. The length of the article is 547 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller.
Author: Brooke Horvath
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v13Issue: n3Page: p242(2)

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