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They can get money mostly through sex — either
legitimate sex, in the form of marriage, or non-
married sex.”
3
Indeed, the changes in sexual morality in Europe
and the United Status during the 1960s and 1970s
were drastic and pervasive. Unlike their parents,
many members of the young generation view
premarital sex as good instead of bad. A Gallup poll
in 1970 in the United States found that three out of
four students were indifferent to virginity, or the
lack of it, in the person they marry.
4
Said British
gynecologist John Slome: ‘‘The kiss of the 1940s and
1950s has become the sexual intercourse of the ‘60s
and ‘70s.”
5
The effect on women has been dramatic. For those
feminists who decried the fact that woman’s
reproductive role made her a “prisoner of sex,” the
Pill appeared as the key to freedom. “Without the
full capacity to limit your own reproduction,” wrote
Lucinda Cisler in
Sisterhood Is Powerful,
“a woman’s
other freedoms are tantalizing mockeries that
cannot be exercized.”
6
But in the view of University
of Michigan psychologist Judith Bardwick, instead
