Make Love, Not War

Based on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, the author traces the changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful 1950s to the first tremors of rebellion in the early 1960s to the heady heyday of the sexual revolution in the 1970s. photo insert.

Introduction 1. Single Girls, Double Standards 2. Beatniks and Bathing Suits 3. The Pill: A Prescription for Equality 4. Love the One You're With 5. Obscenity on Trial 6. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Harrad Experiment and Group Marriage 7. The Right to Marry: Loving vs. Virginia 8. In Loco Parentis 9. Strange Bedfellows: Christian Clergy and the Sexual Revolution 10. Performing the Revolution 11. Sticky Fingers 12. Gay Liberation 13. The Golden Age of Sexual Science 14. Medicine and Morality 15. Why Do These Words Sound Nasty? 16. (Id)eology: Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, and Fritz Perls 17. No Privacy Please: Group Sex in the Seventies 18. The Joy of Sales: The Commercialization of Sexual Freedom 19. Lesbian Liberation: Equal but Separate 20. Sexual Freedom on Demand 21. Counterrevolution and Crisis Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index but Separate