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World War II introduced American troops to the sexual behavior of women around the world. They discovered women could enjoy sex and would actively take part in the process.Some of their experiences had been that American women were passive participants in sex and didn’t really enjoy it all that much. This seemed to be related to the Victorian attitude that good women didn’t enjoy sex and did it only to please the uncontrollable sex urges of men.

In 1947 and 1948 I had worked the grain fields of North Dakota with World War II veterans who at times seemed preoccupied with sharing their sexual experiences in France, Germany and Japan.Their changed expectations about women’s sexual responses would have had an influence upon the behavior of the women they had sex with.

In a more indirect way, a bigger influence was the ongoing conflict in Viet Nam. Students who came into our Counseling Center for counseling were trying to find ways to avoid the draft. Resistance to war was high, and with it a questioning of the wisdom of the government in going to war that opened the possibility that other rules of behavior that had previously been accepted as absolute might also be questionable.

The hippie movement appeared to be a direct outgrowth of the resistance to the war. The hippies were against most established institutions, opposed the Viet Nam War, favored the use of drugs and promoted sexual liberation. They got a great deal of media coverage for their Summer of Love in 1967.