![]() ![]() And within a generation, the term “generation gap” vanished from use. Middle class young people could now indulge in sex, maintain their respectability, and keep all their options open. ![]() Thanks to the pill, middle class heterosexuals could enjoy what the very rich, and the very poor, and homosexuals had always known: sex free of responsibility for bringing a new human being into the world. Suddenly sex without consequences, or more accurately sex without the production of a baby, the one consequence that on a large scale society could not ignore, was available to young adults. A yawning gap opened because what divided parents on one side of the sexual revolution from their college age sons and daughters on the other was unlike anything middle class parents had ever witnessed, or for that matter unlike anything middle class young people had ever experienced. Parents and students could be found on both sides of both. The 60 s called the term forth, but not in the first place because of the civil rights movement or the Vietnam war. ![]() ![]() Although it is natural for young people to rebel against their parents, the term “generation gap” was coined for only one generation in our nation’s history. Evidence of the revolution, and of our forgetting of its radicalness, is preserved in the layers of our language. ![]()
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