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F. Carolyn Graglia The sexual revolution, a movement endorsed by many feminists in the 1960s, encouraged women to reject the double standard that tolerated male promiscuity while expecting women to be sexually reticent. F. Carolyn Graglia asserts in the subsequent viewpoint that the sexual revolution has had a harmful effect on women. Prior to the sexual revolution, she claims, women controlled the sexual aspects of their relationships with men; most women chose to forgo premarital sex, at least until marriage was imminent. Graglia contends that the sexual revolution, by making casual sex the norm, deprived women of the societal support they needed to refuse sex. In addition, she writes, the sexual revolution exacerbated tensions between the sexes by making men feel as though they were being judged on their sexual performance. Graglia is the author of Domestic Tranquility...
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