Sexual Revolution

by Escoffier, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9781560255253
• ISBN10: 1560255250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-27
• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub

Summary

What does "sexual revolution" mean? When, how, and why did it begin? What, if anything, did it change? And what hope do we have that its ideals of equality and pleasure can be realized? From Susan Sontag's "Pornographic Imagination" to Al Goldstein's notorious review of Deep Throat, Sexual Revolution explores the cultural, economic, political, and moral consequences of new ways of sexual thinking and behaving reclaiming the female orgasm and challenging the double standard; celebrating open marriage and homosexuality; and defying taboo and censorship. With Anne Koedt's classic "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" and Norman Mailer's "The Homosexual Villain;" Helen Gurley Brown to Lenny Bruce to name a few this book features the voices of those who registered and provoked popular consciousness and transformed how we think about sex. Today, Dr. Phil talks about oral sex among grade-schoolers and porn star Jenna Jameson gets a six-figure advance for her memoirs. Something has changed, but Sexual Revolution reminds us that our sexuality remains a bitterly contested battleground. This collection includes selections by Erica Jong, Lawrence Lipton, Masters and Johnson, Betty Dodson, Gayle Rubin, Timothy Leary, Henry Miller, Huey Newton, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Jeffery Escoffier
Pure Possibility	xxxvii
Foreword
Erica Jong
PART I: Recognitions
The Second Sexual Revolution	4	(16)
Time, January 24, 1964
The Erotic Revolution	20	(11)
Lawrence Lipton
from The Erotic Revolution, 1965
Reflections on the Revolution in Sex	31	(9)
Francis Canavan, S.J.
from America, March 6, 1965
The Sexual Revolution	40	(11)
Kermit Mehlinger, M.D.
from Ebony, August, 1966
All They Talk About Is Sex, Sex, Sex	51	(19)
Tom Buckley
from The New York Times Magazine, April 30, 1969
PART II: Female Sexuality
Women Alone? Oh, Come Now!	70	(7)
Helen Gurley Brown
from Sex and the Single Girl, 1962
The Female Orgasm	77	(14)
William H. Masters and Virginia Johnson
from Human Sexual Response, 1966
A Theory of Female Sexuality	91	(9)
Mary Jane Sherfey, M.D.
from The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1966
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	100	(11)
Anne Koedt
from Radical Feminism, 1970
Organs and Orgasms	111	(11)
Alix Kates Shulman
from Women in a Sexist Society, 1971
Is Woman Insatiable?	122	(21)
Barbara Seaman
from Free and Female: The Sex Life of the Contemporary Woman, 1972
The Zipless Fuck	143	(5)
Erica Jong
from Fear of Flying, 1973
Getting to Know Me	148	(8)
Betty Dodson
from Ms., August, 1974
"Tell Me What You Are Thinking About," He Said.	156	(10)
Nancy Friday
from My Secret Garden, 1973
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power	166	(9)
Audre Lorde
Keynote, Conference on Women's History, 1978
PART III: Changing Sex Lives
America's Best Kept Secret	175	(11)
Lawrence Lipton
from The Erotic Revolution, 1965
Exploring the New Freedom	186	(18)
Gay Talese
from Thy Neighbor's Wife, 1980
Open Marriages	204	(12)
Nena O'Neill and George O'Neill
from Beyond Monogamy, 1974
The Myth of Black Sexual Superiority: A Re-Examination	216	(11)
Robert Staples
from The Black Scholar, April 1978
Styling, Profiling, and Pretending: The Game Before the Fall	227	(35)
Gloria I. Joseph
from Common Differences: Conflicts in Black & White Feminist Perspectives, 1981
Eulenspiegel? What's That?	262	(4)
Ron Tyson
The Eulenspiege Society Sexual Minorities Report, PRO-ME-THEE-US, 1973.
The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M	266	(34)
Gayle Rubin
from Coming to Power, 1981
Millbrook '66: On Sex, Consciousness and LSD	300	(21)
Timothy Leary
from The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand, 1999.
PART IV: Obscenity, Pornography and Erotica
Obscenity and the Law of Reflection	321	(14)
Henry Miller
from Remember to Remember, 1947
The People of the State of California vs. Lenny Bruce	335	(31)
Lenny Bruce
from plow to Talk Dirty and Influence People, 1965
Think Clean	366	(14)
from Time, March 3, 1967
Pornotopia	380	(20)
Steven Marcus
from The Other Victorians, 1966
The Pornographic Imagination	400	(16)
Susan Sontag
from Styles of Radical will, 1969
Pornography in the Service of Women	416	(17)
Angela Carter
from The Sadean Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, 1978
Review of Deep Throat	433	(2)
Al Goldstein
from Screw, March 1972
Feminism, Moralism and Pornography	435	(9)
Ellen Willis
from Village Voice, October/November, 1979
Talking Sex	444	(24)
Deirdre English, Amber Hollibaugh, and Gayle Rubin
from Socialist Review November/December, 1980
PART V: Homosexuality
Revolt of the Homosexual	468	(9)
Seymour Krim
from Views of Nearsighted Cannoneer, 1968
The Homosexual Villain	477	(9)
Norman Mailer
from Advertisements for Myself, 1963
Memoirs of an Ancient Activist	486	(9)
Paul Goodman
from WIN Magazine, 1969
A Letter to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters	495	(3)
Huey Newton
from Berkeley Tribe, September 5-12, 1970
Notes of a Radical Lesbian	498	(6)
Martha Shelley
from Came Out: A Liberation Forum far the Gay Community, 1969
The Myth of the Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	504	(9)
Jill Johnston
from Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution, 1973
Cocksucker	513	(3)
Anonymous
from Fag Rag, June 1971
Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution	516	(11)
Charley Shively
from Gay Sunshine/Fag Rag, Joint Issue, Summer 1974
A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality	527	(11)
Pat Califia
from The Advocate, December 27, 1979
What We're Rollin' Around in Bed With	538	(19)
Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga
from Heresies, 1981
PART VI: Thinking About Sex
"Civilized" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness	557	(21)
Sigmund Freud
from Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, 1963
Sexual Repression, Instinctual Renunciation and Sexual Reform	578	(21)
Wilhelm Reich
from The Sexual Revolution, 1951
The Transformation of Sexuality into Eros	599	(9)
Herbert Marcuse
from Eros and Civilization, 1955
Sexuality and Psychoanalysis	608	(8)
Simone de Beauvoir
from The Second Sex, 1952
Liberation: Toward the Polymorphous	616	(27)
Dennis Altman
from Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, 1971
The Social Origins of Sexual Development	643	(27)
John H. Gagnon and William Simon
from Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality, 1972
Power and Sex: Interview with Michel Foucault	670	(15)
Bernard Henri Levy
from Telos, 1977
Bibliography	685	(5)
Permissions	690