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sexual revolutions

sexual revolutions is the plural of sexual revolution.

Meaning of sexual revolution

Noun

sexual revolution (plural sexual revolutions)

  1. A period in which attitudes towards sexual behavior undergo a substantial change, usually in the direction of increased liberality.
  2. A specific period in the 1960s and 1970s during which such change is said to have occurred in Western Europe and North America.
    • The sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the American family: increasing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, and single-parent families.1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235

Questions about sexual revolutions

What is sexual revolutions the plural of?
Sexual revolutions is the plural of sexual revolution.

Words near sexual revolutions in the dictionary

  1. sexual reassignment surgery
  2. sexual relation
  3. sexual relations
  4. sexual reproduction
  5. sexual revolution
  6. sexual revolutions
  7. sexual selection
  8. sexual selections
  9. sexual slavery
  10. sexual tension
  11. sexual tensions

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