Anyone else noticed this? Anyone care to offer any explanations as to why?
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Sexuality has been used as a wedge by subversives to tear apart society, that's what the "sexual revolution" was all about. It was manufactured by the creators of Critical Theory, the Jewish Frankfurt school of western marxists.
Any kind of healthy sexuality would be attacked, because it's also used to bring down birthrates.
While that's true, they wouldn't have had nearly the success without the Vietnam War, where the media effectively turned the people against their government. Anti-establishment ideology had a perfect environment.
The media was always against the people. Those in education and the media didn't attack the Vietnam War because war was bad, but because it was a war explicitly against communism.
Yes, but this particular expansion of influence was mostly a matter of television adoption. Media gained a lot of power over the decade. They used it to destroy tradition and institutional trust.
The sexual revolution was enabled by two things:
The invention of "miracle drugs", the antibiotics that took the terror out of syphilis and the other VDs and
The passing of the last of the Victorian-era people.
I think the supposed prudishness of the Victorian age itself was a response to the spread of syphilis moreso than any character (or lack thereof) of the reigning monarch.
And even so, the so-called "liberated" women of the 1920s - the flappers, like my grandmother - did what the men were always supposed to do, too - stop with the drinking, smoking and carousing once they "settled down" and had kids. But the subversives started saying that no one should have to give anything up for the few years it takes to raise a few kids and boot 'em out of the house ...