The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand: The Collected Sex Writings

Some distinctive eras in Western culture have been called the term "sexual revolution." The revolution in the 1960s would be the second. The expression "sexual revolution" appeared as early as 1929; the book Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber and E. B. White, has a chapter titled "The Sexual Revolution." According to historians, the term was in use in Russia in 1925. Since then it has been used by people frequently to describe the acceptance of non-traditional sexual relationships and the legalization of abortions. Historians divide the first and the second sexual revolution. In the first sexual revolution in 1870–1910, when Victorian morality suffered because of losing its attraction.