Antedating of "Sexual Revolution"

[Fred Shapiro]

sexual revolution (OED 1945)

1913 Mrs. Havelock Ellis in _Forum_ Nov. 587  Hinton thought the whole new
conception of love, a sexual revolution and renaissance in one, was in the
hands of women.

Fred Shapiro

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