Sexual Revolution

Sexual Revolution

Jeffrey Escoffier
Role: Author

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, the collection 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.