Yes, there actually was a sexual revolution in the 1920s. During this time, many things about sexuality had changed. Youths and middle class men and women had felt more free to discuss their own feelings about sex to one another, sex talk spread into the media across the whole nation, and women started changing the style of they had dressed and the way they danced to skimpy and sexual. They had started tlaking about sex like it was nothing and that had led to many things during this time. Dating was caused by the "house of prostitution on wheels" which had then led to "petting" which 92 percent of women had admitted into engaging in. During this time contraceptives had been acceped so there had been much more premarital sex going on, the culture was changing. Many didn't think much of "petting" or premarital sex being too wrong because people would only engage in these activities to someone who they had believed they were going to marry in the future. Women were getting more and more rights which had led them to engage in better jobs and their economic lives were reflected in their sexual attitudes. Some women were brave enough to deny the "double standard" and believed they had the same rights as men sexually. During these times, America had changed sexually and I believe that this was the start to the kinds of attitudes and beliefs many have about sex now days which really is more open within people and the media like it had become in the 1920s. Women in the 1920s also started doing things like smoking, drinking, and staying out all night like the men during that time which they still do to this day.
1) How did most perceive the nations sexual change in the 1920s?
2) How was America economically changed duing this time due to women getting more rights and expressing themselves freely?
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