Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Helen Gurley Brown, Hugh Hefner, Unintended Pregnancy

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: K. Shewan

Document Summary

Sex the revolution miniseries: culture war: american culture today advertises sex in one form or another -music, fashion sex drenched. Culture: episode 1: save it for marriage. Controversial because it suggested that women are also sexual like men. Shattered the myth of the american virgin: he recorded the sexual experience of people through interviews to show normality of all sexual behaviors, hugh heffner: i. e. masturbation, adultery, deviant sexuality, homosexuality. Editor & publisher of playboy magazine: goal was to destigmatize sex while news reports said it corrupted children and it was a sign of decline in. American society: wanted "innocent"" women to pose naked and also included articles about sex as a lifestyle, revolutionary because it turned heads to know everyone was sexual. 1960 the food and drug administration approved the 1st oral contraceptive but at the doctor, many women would need to wear a fake wedding ring (for family planning)