sexual liberation
Bodily autonomy movement
Sexual liberation is the loosening of social restrictions on sexual behavior and expression.
The term usually refers to the cultural shift beginning in the 1960s that challenged traditional norms around premarital sex, contraception, homosexuality, and women's sexuality.
On an individual level, sexual liberation means freedom from shame or inhibition: After years of repression, therapy helped her find sexual liberation.
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- bodily autonomyControl over one's physique
- body autonomyControl over one's physicality
- polyamoryConsensual multiple romantic relationships
no strings attached · hedonism · taboo · Stonewall riots · coming out · gay rights · free love · feminism · sex positivity · Wilhelm Reich · feminist movement · queer theory · erotic literature · reproductive rights · orgasm · gender fluidity · coming out · stigma
- sexualityerotica, sensuality, lust, eroticism, intercourse
- sexual ethicschastity, adultery, consent, faithfulness, abstinence
- sexual freedomfree love, consent, bodily autonomy, sex positivity, reproductive rights
- Raelisminfinity symbol, swastika symbol
sexual liberationprudishness
Excessive moral strictness
puritanism · prudery · purity culture · chastity · abstinence
sexual liberationVictorian morality
Rigid 1800s social standards
traditionalism · fundamentalism · honor culture · slut-shaming
sexual liberationVictorian values
Strict morality of 1800s Britain
religious conservatism · fundamentalism · heteronormativity · moral purity · blue laws
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