The contraceptive pill wasn't approved by the FDA until the early 1960's, so the control of sex, and there within, pregnancy, fell largely on women, changing the sexual freedom we enjoy in relationships today dramatically different. Or so one would think. Imagine how this affected dating and marriages. Would it make a man more likely to look for intercourse outside of the marriage, searching for sex without consequences?
Affair's in the 1950's:
In his infamous report (first name) Kinsey found that one in four men admitted to having had sex with prostitutes and one in five women owned up to an extra-marital affair. How do those numbers correspond with the men of the 2010's? According to a 2007 MSNBC and iVillage survey, 44 percent of married men have an affair. According to MSNBC, men usually cheat during the third to fifth years if they are unsatisfied with their sex life.
Was oral sex more prevalent in the 50's than today?
It's hard to say for sure, though the term "giving head" was added to the American vocabulary in the 1950's. One could make the assertion that a woman might be more receptive to this type of sexual activity in preference to sexual intercourse as for the unmarried woman it saved her "honor" for marriage, and for both married and unmarried women presented no concern for pregnancy.
Men's magazines and the introduction of Playboy will be discussed more in another entry, soon to come.
Did grandma have more sex than me?
(Reprinted from the original article by David Ward, in The Guardian,
"You may not believe this but Prima magazine says it so it must be true: married women have less sex today than their grandmothers did. The magazine said women in the 1950s had sex an average of twice a week. But a survey found two-thirds of today's women said they were too tired to manage that much. Cynics may say the fact that there was only one television station 50 years ago, which shut down at about 10pm, could be a factor. Prima's study focused on how women's attitudes towards love, sex and marriage had changed since the 1940s. It found that sex before marriage was now the norm, with four out of five couples sleeping together by the fifth date; but after marriage the passion died down."
References:
We Had More Sex in the 50's. Survey Says
David Ward The Guardian,
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