Their eyes opened by the swinging 60s, and with women empowered by the pill,
When you’ve control of something in scarcity then you’ve power over those that want it. When there’s an abundance of supply then you, the supplier, is less empowered.
Obviously, it did mean that women got to have more sex and more fun. But not wholly sure that’s exactly the same as empowered.
I think that should be: then you, the supplier, is less empowered, innit?
No good having a weapon you can’t use. The pill meant women could have the upsides without what some of them saw as the downsides.
The whole pill liberated women in the 60s schtick is nonsense on stilts as regards the UK. The pill was initially only made available on prescription to married women. That changed in the late 60s and even then plenty of GP’s were reluctant to offer it.
The era’s so-called “permissive society” opened the floodgates to frisky farces that made the Carry On films look tame. “The prevailing mood was transgressive,” says Michael Armstrong, screenwriter of The Sex Thief, Eskimo Nell and Adventures of a Private Eye. “We were the Jesus Christ Superstar generation. We wanted to break rules, push boundaries and overthrow taboos.”
Me too.
Crucify him.
“break rules, push boundaries and overthrow taboos.”
What tedious shite. He’s probably the sort of dismal bore who congratulates himself on being “radical” and “a maverick”. Machine-gunners!
dearieme: I wonder what his positions on Brexit, Covid, illegal immigration, and Trump are.
And those films are shite.
Sam – You might be surprised.
As a relaxation of censorship rules meant a proliferation of bare flesh on screen, punters flocked to cop an eyeful. Confessions of a Window Cleaner became the top-grossing British film of 1974. “It was a guilty secret, a bit like Margaret Thatcher’s popularity,” says Askwith. “I never met anyone who’d admit voting for Thatcher and seldom met anyone who’d seen Confessions of a Window Cleaner. Explain that!”
Bill G – The whole pill liberated women in the 60s schtick is nonsense on stilts as regards the UK.
What “liberation” tho? Do young people today seem healthy and well adjusted about sex and relationships?