What wild ecstasy
What wild ecstasy: the rise and fall of the sexual revolution John Heidenry
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1997.
ISBN: 0684810379
DDC: 306.7
LCC: HQ18
Summary:
"In many respects, the Sexual Revolution was the catalyst that set in
motion social life as we know it at the end of the twentieth century.
Yet many of us have difficulty remembering - or never knew - just
when and where the first shots were fired, how the battle was waged,
and who fought on its front lines. In this first popular history of
the turbulent last three decades of American sexual culture,
journalist John Heidenry completes our sexual education. His
startling you-are-there account takes us behind the closed doors of
clubs and courtrooms, research labs and bedrooms, to find out who did
what to whom - and how, when, where, and why - in the wide world of
human sexuality." "In cinematic style, the narrative jump-cuts
dramatically between story lines, covering a dazzling array of
people, places, and events - both little-known and headline-making -
as Heidenry expertly navigates the currents of sexual manners and
mores. We witness the coming of age of the science of sexology; the
burgeoning of popular culture, in which magazines such as Screw and
films such as Deep Throat won fans and fanned controversies over
freedom of expression; the movement for the rights of gay men,
lesbians, and other sexual minorities; and the effect of all these
innovations and upheavals on the general public, which gained a new
sexual awareness even as it lost its consensus on premarital sex,
abortion, and virtually every other sex-related issue." "All in all,
it was a cultural earthquake whose aftertremors can still be felt -
in science, the arts, business, media, and the day-to-day lives of
ordinary mortals, for whom sex is, in Heidenry's phrase, "the poor
woman's or poor man's grand opera." Now, at last, a watershed era has
found a writer who does justice to its impact and its
aftermath."--BOOK JACKET.
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