Sex: The Revolution

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Sex: The Revolution is a four-part documentary miniseries airing on VH1 that chronicles the rise of American interest in sexuality from the 1950s on.

[edit] Episodes

1. Save It 'Til Marriage - first aired Monday, May 12, 2008
2. The Big Bang - first aired Tuesday, May 13, 2008
3. Do Your Thing - first aired Wednesday, May 14, 2008
4. Tainted Love - first aired Thursday, May 15, 2008

[edit] Key Topics

• The Kinsey Report
• Playboy
• Rock and Roll
• Citizens for Decent Literature
• The Pill
• Sex and the Single Girl
• Playboy Clubs
• the Generation Gap
• Beatniks
• Free Speech vs. Filthy Speech
• Sexual Freedom League
• Hippies and the Summer of Love
• Protest culture
• Civil Rights Movement
• the Vietnam War
• Abbie Hoffman
• the Abortion debate
• the Strip Club
• Sex as marketing tool
• Sexploitation
• the new Film Code
• Sex on Broadway (Oh! Calcutta!)
• Masters and Johnson
  • Human Sexual Response
  • Human Sexual Inadequacy
• Swingers
• Urban Swingers
• Eselyn
• Encounter groups
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• New attitudes towards sexuality in the middle class
• Linda LeClair and Barnard College
• Women's Equality
  • Bra burning
• Efforts against the Sexual Revolution
• Midnight Cowboy
• Woodstock
• Feminism and Gay Liberation
  • Stonewall Riots
  • Homosexuality as mental illness
  • Fear of Flying
• Roe v. Wade
• Sandstone Retreat
• Wide-release pornography
  • Porno Chic
  • Deep Throat
  • Behind the Green Door
    • Marilyn Chambers
• the Castro District
• Harvey Milk
  • Assassination of Milk and George Morcone
  • the Castro Riots
• Anita Bryant vs. Homosexuality
• Anti-feminist Movement
• Disco
  • Studio 54
  • Plato's Retreat
  • Cocaine and Quaaludes
  • The Village People
• the modern pornographic magazine
  • Full-frontal nudity
  • Hustler Magazine
  • Penthouse Magazine
  • "showing pink"
  • Anti-pornography campaign
• Rolling Stones "Black and Blue Billboard"
• Rise in Divorce Rater
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
• The Backlash
  • Dressed to Kill
  • Cruising
  • Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  • The rise of the Religious Right
  • The US presidental election of Ronald Reagan
• VD and STDs
  • Genital herpes
• AIDS
  • "the gay disease"
  • The death of Rock Hudson
• the Meeks Commission
  • "I know it when I see it"
• Fatal Attraction
• the notion of safe sex
• Repercussions and positive changes as a result of the revolution in the new century.