The Playboy Forum

July, 1971

Revolutionary RepressionWhen I was young--over a decade ago--the sexual revolution was a healthy rebellion against the more idiotic taboos of orthodox churches. It was an assertion of simple, common-sense propositions based on tolerance, laissez faire and humanistic rationalism. The left, still hung up in its own kind of puritanism either ignored this movement or pronounced it individualistic and counterrevolutionary.Now, alas, the left has moved into the sexual revolution and imbued it with the...