Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Season of the rich
Other clues should be found in the excellent documentary series Sex: the Revolution but the first episode didn’t bring us anywhere close to this young breed. The series traces the elements that help the US swing between puritanical hypocrisy and free-thinking, free-sexing liberation. All the key players feature: Kinsey, Heffner, Steinem, Presley, Waters, Gurley-Brown, a mansion full of bunnies and a Berkeley campus full of bad language.
It is only 50 years since homosexuality was a crime punishable by five years’ jail time in some US states. Sexual intercourse other than that occurring within matrimony for the purposes of procreation was taboo. The idea of a woman actually enjoying sex was tantamount to prostitution. The pill, penicillin, the civil rights movements and feminism have made it possible for lost children like PC and Jessie to bitch-slap at Fashion Week, pay retail on Madison Avenue and eat chicken in a tin. We are doomed.