"Casualties of the Sexual Revolution"

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"Casualties of the Sexual Revolution"

Chicago Tribune (11/18/91), P. 1-15
Beck, Joan

Abstract: Women are suffering much more from the sexual revolution than men are, writes columnist Joan Beck, and something must be done to reduce this cost. The changes in moral and sexual behavior brought about by the revolution have resulted in a shocking increase in unwanted pregnancies, while efforts to create new methods of birth control have almost totally concentrated on women. While sexually transmitted diseases affect men and women equally, it is only women that suffer the epidemic of pelvic inflammatory disease, for which 200,000 women must be hospitalized every year. Only in AIDS has there been a greater toll exacted on men than women, and even here, women are more at risk of contracting the disease heterosexually than men are. Beck concludes that women's sought-after equality is not based on the changes in sexual and moral behavior brought about by the sexual revolution. It is time to determine the difference between equality and exploitation, she says.

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