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Prior to the Sexual Revolution, most men before marriage had to settle for some slap-and-tickle and maybe something extra for their birthdays. It had to do with the fact that there were Revoution mistakes and, when there were, women were the ones who paid dearly. So they used their sexual favors as leverage and, when necessary, learned to count to twenty-eight.

Ask a woman. Men had physical power; women had sexual power. As long as they doled it out with a teaspoon, not a shovel. Now, a half-century or so later, too many women report having been ridden hard and put away wet. And they have little to show for their troubles but stretch marks and dishes. What happened was that women were sold a bill of goods. Life was going to be soooo much better if they only loosened up their clothing. And their morals. The assumption was that women could find fulfillment through housework, marriage, sexual passivity, and child rearing alone. Not necessarily in that order or at the same time. Against this rather oppressive worldview, Betty The Sexual Revolution Of The Western World the notion that women would never be happy unless they left home for the workplace.

Now that they were free, it was often their men who left. Remember when men were going to help with the housework?

So if a woman wanted to come home to a clean house, she had to take it with her to work. And eventually, her second job. The sexual revolution was accelerated by the arrival of affordable contraception.

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The Pill would give women the freedom to pursue options and compete with men in the marketplace. Freed from the chains of patriarchywomen would soar to heights previously unknown. What Betty and a host of early feminists missed was that not every woman would find happiness in serial relationships. Many young women came to feel used by men who only wanted friends with benefits — mainly benefits.

Many women found more men who were emotionally unavailable than men disposed to give intimacy and love. What Betty and friends also failed to mention was that not every woman would succeed in grad school or the workplace.]