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单词 sexual revolution
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sexual revolution
sexual revolution n. [after German sexuelle Revolution (c1919 or earlier; Otto Gross (1877–1920), Austrian psychiatrist and anarchist, is credited with coining the phrase (by F. Werfel in 1929)); compare French revolution sexuelle (1934)] any significant shift in attitudes to sex and conventions of sexual behaviour; spec. the liberalization of social and moral approaches to sex often held to have taken place in Western societies in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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1930 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 35 662 William McDougall undertakes to reduce libertarian dogmas to a logical absurdity, and Samuel D. Schmalhausen supplies affective palpitations on behalf of the new sexual revolution.
1957 Marriage & Family Living 19 307/2 Hirsch's ‘sexual revolution of 1930-55’ has been going on since Ellis, Freud, Kraft-Ebbing, Plotz, et cetera, and long before.
1967 Times 6 Jan. 11/2 Before debating the Bill [sc. on state aid for contraception], the Commons should clear their minds of cant about the ‘sexual revolution’ and remember, with Macaulay, an equally permissive period, [etc.].
1977 ‘C. Fremlin’ Spider-orchid viii. 61 In spite of Permissiveness and the Sexual Revolution..nothing had changed!
1981 V. Stolcke in K. Young et al. Of Marriage & Market (1984) viii. 163 The relatively greater sexual freedom in some Western countries in recent times has shown that a sexual revolution does not necessarily entail a social revolution.
2006 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. (T: Style Mag.) 104/2 The same energy that brought on the 1960's sexual revolution is stirring up today's randy reawakening.
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