Did Pornography Fuel the Sexual Revolution?

[marshlander]

The 1960s was not just about a sexual revolution, but was certainly a part of a whole raft of attitudinal changes. I'm sure EofE will confirm that we often talked about "the revolution" in those days. This breakdown in traditional values terrified the old guard and many of us sincerely thought that we were working towards a more tolerant and peaceful society, the so-called "counter-culture". In popular culture terms Woodstock was probably where one road led, the other was Altamont just months later. Where hippies were gathered there would also be Hell's Angels. Recreational drugs literally changed the way we saw the world.

The emancipation afforded women through the availability of the pill was at least as important. Wasn't the explosion in pornography, but one expression of the ensuing hedonism?