sexuality, marriage, and chabilitiation

  • 1950s

    • family togetherness

      • first american to receive sex change operation in denmark (1952)

      • first playboy magazine

      • Elvis Presley on ED Sulivans show

      • Due to his provocativeness, they could not film below his waist

        • he was too sexy

      • bikini released

      • discrimination against gays and lesbians

        • In 1953, McCarthy framed a security threat, and in 1953, Eisenhower signed an executive order barring lgbtq+ members from goverment jobs

  • 1960s-1969

    • start of the second sexual revolution

      • Yes girlies fight for your freedom

    • 1960

      • FDA aproves the pill

    • 1965

      • griswold v. connectcut arried couples have a right privacy in birth control decisions

      • second wave feminism

    • alot of gender inequality and overcontrolling male presence

    • 1968

      • pope ruled the pill unatural and its use a mortal sin

    • 1969

      • stonewall riot

  • 1970s

    • 1971

      • 26th amendment to constitution lowered voting age to 18leading most states to consider 18 as adulthood, permitting access to birth control

    • 1972

      • overturns state laws prohibiting sale of contraceptives to single people

    • 1973

    • roe v wade

  • 1980s

    • concervative backlash

    • because of hiv and aids there was more open discussion of sex an condom use

1990s

  • sex in mass media

    • 1991

      • Clarence Thomas hearings

      • Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky (intern)

      • viagra

      • TV (nypd blue, ELLEN

    • mid 1990s-late 2000s

      • abstinence-only education for adolescants

    • 1994-2011

      • dont ask dont tell prohibited discrimination against lgbtq in the military so long as they didnt disclose their sexuality

    • 2000-today

      • dating apps that allow different matching criteria

      • SCOTUS struck down texas law that barred consensual sexual activity b/t same sex individuals

      • MA supreme court barring same sex marriage violates state constitution and in may 2004 marriages are performed

      • states begin to legalize same sex marriages

    • 2014

      • SCOTUS sides with hobby lobby allowing it to exclude contraceptive care from its health plan

    • 2015

      • same sex couples have a right to marry

    • 2017

      • #METOO

        • in response to reports of harvey weinstein sexual assaults

        • brought awareness of the sexual assault that was happening behind closed doors

  • Three ideal marriage types

    • institutional → companionate → individualization

      • institutional

        • pre 20th centry to early 20th centry

        • male authority

        • conformaty

        • common among settlers

        • law, tradition, religious belief

      • companionete

        • shift to wage work

        • Reduced parents’ authority over young adults

        • increases in standards of living

        • Many middle-class white women did housework and caretaking

      • early 20th century to mid-1960s

        • emphasis on affection, friendship and sexual gratification

    • transition to individualization

      • women’s increase labor force

      • greater independence from men

      • increase in the standard of living

      • can live alone

    • individualized marriage

      • mid 1960s to today

      • emphasis on self-development flexible roles, and open communication

      • spousal roles became more flexible and open to negotiation

      • Evaluate marriages in terms of satisfaction and fulfilment

    • chosen families

      • kath weston

      • families formed through voluntary ties among individuals who are not biologically or legally related

  • history of developments

    • 1970s

      • tried to use civil rights precedent on interracial marriages were unconstitutional