Editing Sexual revolution (section)

==Modern revolutions==
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The [[Industrial Revolution]] during the nineteenth century and the growth of science and technology, medicine and health care, resulted in better [[contraceptives]] being manufactured. Advances in the manufacture and production of rubber made possible the design and production of [[condom]]s that could be used by hundreds of millions of men and women to prevent pregnancy at little cost. Advances in [[chemistry]], [[pharmacology]], and [[biology]], and human [[physiology]] led to the discovery and perfection of the [[combined oral contraceptive pill|first oral contraceptives]], popularly known as "the Pill."

All these developments took place alongside and combined with an increase in the world [[literacy]] and a decline in religious observance. Old values such as the biblical notion of "be fruitful and multiply" were cast aside as people continued to feel alienated from the past and adopted the lifestyles of progressive modernizing cultures.

Another contribution that helped bring about this modern revolution of sexual freedom were the writings of [[Herbert Marcuse]] and [[Wilhelm Reich]], who took the philosophy of [[Karl Marx]] and similar philosophers.

"[[No-fault divorce|No-fault]]" unilateral divorce became legal and easier to obtain in many countries during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

The women's movement redefined sexuality, not in terms of simply pleasing men but recognizing women's sexual satisfaction and sexual desire. ''[[The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm]]'' (1970) by [[Anne Koedt]] illustrates an understanding of a women's sexual anatomy including evidence for the [[Clitoris|clitoral]] orgasm, arguing against Freud's "assumptions of women as inferior appendage to man, and her consequent social and psychological role."<ref name="Vaginal Orgasm">{{cite web|last=Koedt |first=Anne |title=The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm |url=http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/vaginalmyth.html |access-date=December 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106211856/http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/vaginalmyth.html |archive-date=January 6, 2013 }}</ref> The women's movement was able to develop lesbian feminism, freedom from heterosexual act, and freedom from reproduction. Feminist [[Betty Friedan]] published the ''[[Feminine Mystique]]'' in 1963, concerning the many frustrations women had with their lives and with separate spheres which established a pattern of inequality.

[[File:CDFrontInsert.FreedomToLove.Pride.WDC.31May2009.jpg|thumb|1997 [[LGBT]] poster, New York City]]
The [[Gay Rights Movement]] started when the [[Stonewall riots]] of 1969 crystallized a broad grass-roots mobilization. New gay liberationist gave political meaning to "coming out" by extending the psychological-personal process into public life. During the 1950s the most feared thing of the homosexual culture was "coming out", the homosexual culture of the 1950s did everything they could to help keep their sexuality a secret from the public and everyone else in their lives, but Alfred Kinsey's research on homosexuality alleged that 39% of the unmarried male population had had at least one homosexual experience to orgasm between adolescence and old age.<ref name=GLBTQ />