If we had to find a date to say when the sexual revolution began, August 18, 1960 would be a good place to start. That day, the first contraceptive pill went on sale in the United States. That marked the beginnings of mass society’s acceptance of a separation between the marital act and procreation.

Certainly, there were those who led immoral lives before 1960, but they were both obvious and few. Communities shunned the promiscuous. Gradually at first, but with increasing speed as the sixties rolled out, virtue and responsibility in the sexual realm were replaced by self-gratification. “Do your own thing” and other, more vulgar, slogans marked the rise of widespread immorality.

All around us lie the victims of the sexual revolution. Among them are the 60 million Americans that never lived because of abortion. We can see it in the fact that very few families are unaffected by divorce. We can see it in the number of unloved and unmarried young women who deliberately become pregnant in order to have a baby who they can call their own. We can see it in the gang culture that has become a part of life in most cities – large or small.

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