Sexual Revolution Quotes:

The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Children, Thinking, Nihilism, Sexual Revolution

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Revolution, Normal, Way, Sexual Revolution

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Growing Up, Dirty, Mean, Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

topic: Cowboy, American West, Revolution, Sexual Revolution

Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

- Volkmar Sigusch

topic: Keys, Interesting, Secret, Commercialization, Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

- Volkmar Sigusch

topic: Revolution, Century, 20th Century, Sexual Revolution, Deviants

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.

- Beth Bailey

topic: Practice, Doctors, Birth Control Pills, Unconstitutional, Contraceptives

Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.

- Lillian B. Rubin

topic: Sex, Women, Character, Connotation, Promiscuous

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Roots, Radical Feminism, Political, Suspenders, Transsexuals

If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: Media, Revolution, Medical, Sexual Revolution

De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a great success. Nor can we overlook the contribution of the entertainment industry, which now determines what passes for 'culture.' The main practical vehicle of de-Christianization has been the Sexual Revolution. A few radicals have called for the abolition of the family, but most liberals have been more discreet, avoiding hostile rhetoric while quietly but constantly pursuing policies that result in lower birthrates and fatherless children.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Children, Government, America, Entertainment Industry, Fatherless

Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

- Richard Louv

topic: Change, Growing Up, Children, Daycare, Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.

- June Diane Raphael

topic: Book, Waiting, Feelings, Sexual Revolution

The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

- Walker Percy

source: Walker Percy (2013). “The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming: In One Volume”, p.356, Open Road Media

topic: Dog, Waiting, Tails, Victoria, Sexual Revolution

It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

- Kate Millett

source: Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

topic: Sex, Women, Reality, Subordination, Harsh Reality

I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way, I’ve seen people withdraw, I’ve seen people hide behind political ideas, behind dope, behind the sexual revolution, behind fascism, behind hypocrisy, and I’ve myself done all these things. So I can understand them. What we are saying is so gentle. It’s gentleness. We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

- John Cassavetes

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

topic: Blow, Dope, Ideas, Sexual Revolution, Human Problems

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

- Christine O'Donnell

topic: Prayer, School, People, Sexual Revolution, Tea Party

Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.

- Mona Charen

source: Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

topic: Mother, Brother, Father, Marriage And Family, Sexual Revolution

No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

- Bruce LaBruce

topic: Revolution, Homosexual, Sexual Revolution

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

- Denis Leary

source: Denis Leary (2015). “No Cure for Cancer”, p.30, Anchor

topic: Funny, Sexy, Humor, Getting Laid, Sexual Revolution

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Revolution, Enough, Wells, Sexual Revolution

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

- Sally Kirkland

topic: New York, Revolution, Activism, Sexual Revolution

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

- Jerry Rubin

topic: Sex, Revolution, Backseat, Sexual Revolution

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

- Midge Decter

source: The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation ch. 2 (1972)

topic: Sex, Real, Revolution, Real Truth, Sexual Revolution

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

- Christine O'Donnell

topic: People, Dying, Revolution, Sexual Revolution, Tea Party

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.

- Michel Houellebecq

topic: Couple, Interesting, Community, Sexual Revolution

The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.

- Jennifer Morse

topic: Long, Twenties, Revolution, Infertility, Sexual Revolution

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

- Kate Millett

topic: Revolution, Oppression, Victim, Patriarchy, Emancipation

Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans. It birthed a negative sexual revolution. I was going to a lot of bondage clubs at the time and they did play this song. The song I associate more is that horrible Enigma song with the Gregorian chant. There's something good buried in that song and I might not hate it as much if I hadn't been a sex worker.

- Margaret Cho

source: "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

topic: Song, Sex, Hate, Ray Bans, Sexual Revolution

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

- Maggie Gallagher

topic: White, Rights, Racism, Racial Segregation, Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

- Volkmar Sigusch

topic: People, Movement, Revolution, Sexual Revolution

We've seen the transformation of America, when at the pinnacle of its Christianity was probably in the 1950s. Ever since then it has been declining, why? Because of the sexual revolution. Where did the sexual revolution come from? The sexual revolution came from the activists of the American gay movement.

- Scott Lively

topic: Gay, America, Movement, Sexual Revolution

I sort of feel sorry for gays being the last ones at the sexual revolution window. We've had liberalizing rules on divorce. We've had the sexual revolution. We've had, you know, the pill, and burning bras and rampant premarital sex and polymorphous perversity.

- Ann Coulter

source: "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

topic: Sex, Sorry, Divorce, Perversity, Sexual Revolution

People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.

- Dustin Lance Black

topic: Sex, Mean, Gay, Sexual Revolution

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

- Kate Millett

source: Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.362, Columbia University Press

topic: Women, Reality, Political, Reorganization, Sexual Revolution

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

- David Brooks

source: "Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the polls". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 9, 2016.

topic: War, Issues, Generations, Sexual Revolution

I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Hurt, Home, Thinking, Sexual Revolution