Sex and drugs
Sex and drugs
- July 1, 2014
- David John Frank, sociology professor, is quoted in The Scientist July 1, 2014
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From The Scientist:
David John Frank, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine, reported
a few years ago that such social changes can be traced back to at least the 1940s,
when laws against nonmarital or nonprocreative sex began to contract, and laws punishing
sex crimes expanded. These legislative changes reflect a modern view of sex whose
origins perhaps lie as far back as the French Revolution, when France started retiring
laws prohibiting nonprocreative sexual behaviors. “I think it’s the French Revolution
that begins to break apart the monopoly of family thinking and begins to assert the
primacy of individual thinking, and a shift [in perspective] from baby-making sex
to individual-pleasure sex,” Frank says.
For the full story, please visit http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40305/title/Sex-an....
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