Flaminia skrev 2013-05-21 15:32:15 följande:
Nej, det är ingen slump att den sexuella revolutionen kom ungefär samtidigt som p-pillren. Det är väl rätt logiskt att det haft stor betydelse för den kvinnliga frigörelsen att kvinnor fått möjligheten att ha sex utan behöva oroa sig för konsekvenser i form av oönskade graviditeter.
bara det att det är helt fel. den sexuella revolutionen började under och efter andra världkriget, alltså innan p-pillret, men just efter man börjat använda penicillin mot en dödlig std. och om har rätt, så skulle den ju aldrig stannat upp i början av 80-talet när HIV började härja.
hur som helst är varken p-piller eller penicillin en konsekvens av feminism utan av manliga forskares upptäcktslusta
här.
"It's a common assumption that the sexual revolution began with the permissive attitude of the 1960s and the development of contraceptives like the birth control pill," Andrew Francis, an economist at Emory University, said in a press release. "The evidence, however, strongly indicates that the widespread use of penicillin, leading to a rapid decline in syphilis during the 1950s, is what launched the modern sexual era."
Dr. Francis, who conducted an analysis recently published in "Archives of Sexual Behavior," argues that penicillin reduced the risks associated with sex. He compares it to the economic law of demand: when the cost of a good falls, people buy more of the good.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928, but was not widely used until World War II. The U.S. government had to deal with the very real problem of soldiers contracting sexually transmitted diseases. Penicillin was found to be an effective cure for the most damaging: syphilis.
"The military wanted to rid the troops of STDs and all kinds of infections, so that they could keep fighting," Francis said. "That really sped up the development of penicillin as an antibiotic."
After the war, penicillin became widely prescribed, and syphilis rates fell accordingly. Between 1947 and 1957, the incidence of syphilis fell by 95 percent - all but eliminating it as a consequence of sexual activity.
