3a: Class and social change | To what extent did attitudes towards sexual behaviour change in the period 1945-79?
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- To what extent did attitudes towards sexual behaviour change in the period 1945-79?
- Thesis: change/ 'sexual revolution'
- Aided by the media/consumerism - newspapers' dissemination of sexual ideas
- Lady Chatterley Trial 1960
- Repression/reserved stereotype was false - Veneral disease/WW2 prostitution/ sexual advice books (Love Without Fear 1941) - shows disparity between reality - steady change in sexual behaviour - revolution was in terms of openness.
- State regulation of sexuality (accepted in the 50s) generally dismissed
- Decriminalisation of private homosexuality 1957/ Abortion 1967
- Aided by the media/consumerism - newspapers' dissemination of sexual ideas
- Antithesis
- Most sexual liberalisation was legislature, and private bills
- The Sexual Offences Act (67) - later on, took ages to implement Wolfenden Report (57) - privately funded/published due to pressure from Homosexual Law Reform Committee (Attlee etc were influential) - still declared 'decline in morality'/ tightening on prostitution/ only 'private' homosexuality
- Misleading images of decadence/sexual exploration - 'Hair'/'Oh Calcutta' were in London
- Mary Whitehouse - TV focussed, but also homosexuality/promiscuity
- Still shocked by sex scandals - Profumo Scandal (1963)/Cliveden House
- Michael Schofield's The Sexual Behaviour of Young People (65)/ Geoffrey Gorer's studies (69) - similar pre 50s acceptance to pre-marital sex/homosexulaity/infidelity
- Most sexual liberalisation was legislature, and private bills
- Introduction: affluence/leisure time/consumer choice -> prosperity -> challenge to attitudes
- Thesis: change/ 'sexual revolution'
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