Timeline Of Changes To Homo Compared To Straight

Question 1

1918

Answer 1

Marie stopes married love was punished which argued that both men and women should enjoy sex within marriage

Question 2

1947

Answer 2

The Second World War had briefly undermined traditional values by delegating husbands and wives. Although divorces reach a high in this year, reports suggest women were happy to return to marriage after the war

Question 3

1953

Answer 3

Alfred Kinsey published sexual behaviour in the human female, which undermined moral condemnation of sex before marriage

Question 4

1959

Answer 4

The obscene publications act allows more sexual images and the use of obscene words in “high art”

Question 5

1959-69

Answer 5

British government introduces new liberal laws but these came from backbench MPs rather than their constituents. These include abolition of the death penalty and legislation of homosexuality

Question 6

1965

Answer 6

Micheal schofields the sexual behaviour of young people was published. Only 18% of teenage girls and 10% of boys had more than 3 sexual partners and that only 17% of girls and 33% of boys had sex by the age of 19

Question 7

1967

Answer 7

Davids steel’s abortion act- legalises abortion. Rather than debate the morality of abortion in parliament steel asked them to consider the amount of deaths from illegal abortions (40 in 1966 and 100,000 injuries)

Question 8

1968

Answer 8

The theatres act relaxes censorship in the theatre allowing more discussion of sexual content

Question 9

1971

Answer 9

Geoffrey Gorers sex and marriage in England today showed that 96% of women and 95% of men were married by 45 and that the average married age for women was 23, down from 25 in 1946

Question 10

1972

Answer 10

Dr Alex comforts joy of sex was published with explicit images and argued that sex was a pleasure rather than a part of marriage

Question 11

1974

Answer 11

The theatres act also affects cinema- the soft porn film Emmanuel was the 4th most popular film of the year