| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History. By David Allyn. (New York: Little, Brown, 2000. xii, 381 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-316-03930-6.)

Have you been able to figure out what was revolutionary about group sex in the 1970s or what lesbian feminism, Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex (1972), and go-go dancers have in common? The general reader curious about such matters will surely find David Allyn's Make Love, Not War a treasure trove of interesting stories carefully mapped out through key literary and social events that display Americans' growing tolerance for and fascination with all things sexual. 1

Allyn has tirelessly trod through the classic landmarks of sexual liberalism in post–World War II America: the growth of sexually explicit images in the public sphere; the triad of affluence, conformity, and boredom; outrageous people such as Hugh Hefner and Helen Gurley Brown; famous places such as the Playboy mansion and Masters and Johnson's St. Louis laboratory; key phenomena such as the birth control pill and student protest movements. New additions Allyn makes to this pantheon are Catholic priests, Broadway and off-Broadway productions, and a nice business history of bathhouses in the 1970s. Allyn is best when he describes the ways in which the white suburban middle class engaged with select elements of once-subcultural practices such as group sex and open marriage, to mention only the most tame. . . .

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