Make Love, Not War

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Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History
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Author David Allyn
LanguageEnglish
Subject History of human sexuality
Publication date
2001
Media typePrint
ISBN 0-316-03930-6
306.70973
LC Class HQ18.U5 A38 2001

Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History is a 2001 book by David Allyn. [1]

Summary

Allyn documents the history of sexual revolution that took place in the United States in the 1960s. [2] The name references the popular 1960s counterculture anti-war slogan "Make love, not war".

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