The New Sexual Underground

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The more things change, so we are told, the more they remain the same. And it would certainly seem to be so in the case of sexual behavior. We have long taken man’s basic sexual nature quite for granted, assuming that Western civilization has in various ways shaped the biological sexual capacity provided through the evolution of homo sapiens, and that the resulting patterns of our sexuality are, if not permanent, certainly not what one might call subject to change without notice.

And yet, in less than the winking of History’s eye, extreme changes in our sexual mores have made their appearance in recent years. As John Warren Wells points out, the past decade has witnessed the triumph of the sexual revolution. With the bedroom as the battlefield, and with scarcely a shot fired in anger, we have in uncountable ways revised our manners of thinking and acting about intercourse (premarital, extramarital, and plain marital), homosexuality (male and female), and those forms of behavior which have in turn been called perversions, deviations, and preferences. Our children grow up knowing and doing that which their parents neither knew nor did. And their parents are now making up for lost time in the world of the swingers.

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