Sexual revolution
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The term "sexual revolution" is used to describe an alleged loosening in Western sexual mores in the 1960s and 1970s following the development of accessible and reliable contraception - specifically, "the Pill." While it's not clear if people were really boinking more than they had been previous to the sexual revolution (recent statistics show that the rate of premarital sex in the general population has been fairly constant at 90-95% of the American population over the last century, for example), by the early 1980s, with the threats of herpes and HIV/AIDS, the party was, if not pretty much over, at least operating under a new set of rules.