What are the factors that accounted for a change in women's sexual behavior?

What will be an ideal response?


One important factor, certainly, is the emergence of easy-to-use, unobtrusive, and very reliable contraceptives. This has eased women's fears of pregnancy and widened their options as far as sexual behavior is concerned. A second major factor has been the feminist movement, which emphasizes that women should gain control of their lives and be able to make decisions for themselves. A third factor producing changing sexual practices has been technological developments, such as the automobile, that provide young people with more freedom and the means to escape surveillance by adults. A final factor producing changes in sexual behavior is the trend toward secularization: the process through which the influence of religion is removed from many institutions in society and dispersed into private and personal realms.

Sociology

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