Sexual Revolution
Playboy. The first prerequisite for sexual revolution was appearance (at the end of 1953) of a new men’s magazine - Playboy. It was an adult magazine targeted to a sophisticated urban male audience. The magazine advocated a philosophy that was very new to people. It was that sex is a natural, wholesome and healthy human act - not something to hide. Sex was a great activity, which normal single man can share with the girl.
Marilyn Monroe (on the December 1953 Playboy reprint featuring Miss December 1953 - Marilyn Monroe) and Hugh Hefner explained to people that sexual act is as natural as eating and sleeping, and at the same way more funny and pleasant. Hefner sold over seven million of copies, thanks to “new Playboy philosophy”. People began looking at their sexual selves in new ways. So, Marilyn and Hugh played a key role in shaping 20th century sexual history.
Free love. In the middle 1960s in San Francisco was formed a new culture of “free love” with thousands of young, attractive people, who preached the idea of love and the beauty and power of sex as part of ordinary student life. They believed that sexual satisfaction in love is the main thing; it makes the difference between being in a good relationship and being in an unhappy relationship.
P.S.: 1960 - development of the birth control pill, which gave women access to easy contraception.
Internet. The world started to get online in the mid 1990s. People are searching different things online, but “sex” is the number one search topic on the Internet. Accurate statistics regarding the use of Internet sexual sites (pornography or escort services) are difficult to obtain. However, statistics demonstrate staggering numbers of sexual Internet resources; there are at least 635,000,000 connected with sex web pages currently available.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s the sexual revolution was a substantial, very important change in people’s sexual behaviors and thoughts all over the globe. We can’t say that the sexual revolution involved major changes in sexual behavior. Many people have suggested that the main change was not that people had more sex or different types of sex; it was simply that they talked about gays, lesbians, homosexual or bisexual relationship more openly than previous generations had done. Historian David Allyn says: “It was a time of coming-out: about premarital sex, masturbation, erotic fantasies, pornography use, and, of course, homosexuality.”
Nowadays, promotion of sex on screen and acceptance of frontal nudity by men and women on stage became the norm in many European countries. Sexual entertainment, for example striptease and escorts services are highly popular. Men came to be entertained by topless women at night-clubs; there are a lot of high class escort agencies, where people (males and females) can hire escorts to full fill all their dreams and wishes, also there are a great variety of organization for bisexual, homosexual people and so on. What more we can expect from sexual revolution in future?