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The American sexual liberation movement started in the 1960's, and centered on the west coast/San Francisco specifically. Before that America was literally fou
by valarauca1 10y ago
The American sexual liberation movement started in the 1960's, and centered on the west coast/San Francisco specifically.
Before that America was literally founded (in the north at least) by religious conservatives who were too prudish for Europe. In fact the early US Quaker movement banned sex all together.
- selimthegrim 10y agoShaker, not Quaker
- huxley 10y agoYou're probably thinking of the Shakers, compared to other non-conformist sects, the Quakers had relatively few hangups about sex.
- npsimons 10y agoThat being said, I can attest to at least the Shaker melody (well known from Copland's "Appalachian Spring") as a touchstone of American culture. It's pretty good.
- chrisper 10y agoAlso Puritans.
- lotharbot 10y agoPuritans were actually very pro-sex (within marriage), which was a marked contrast to the pro-celibacy views of Roman Catholicism, and opposite the view of the Shakers. See, for example, http://www.challies.com/quotes/the-puritans-and-sex http://www.challies.com/quotes/the-puritans-and-sex which quotes quite a few Puritan writings.
- Chris2048 10y agoRoman Catholics are pro-celibacy? You mean the priests?
- lotharbot 10y agoyes, sort of -- I mean that Roman Catholicism includes pro-celibacy views, particularly regarding priests (to go along with pro-marital-sex views; it's not single-sided.) The point was to show the contrast -- the Puritans were only pro-celibacy for the unmarried, which they viewed as a temporary state; they had a pretty one-sided "everyone should get married and have lots of sex" view. They themselves considered this to be in opposition to RC views. (And, in particular, comments about the Puritans being anti-sex are way off base.)
- Chris2048 10y agoI thought RCs had the same view? Also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk :-)