Make Love, Not War

In Chapter 1 of Make Love, Not War, David Allyn describes the reception of the novel Sex and the Single

Girl by Helen Gurley Brown. The chapter then focuses on the “double standard” that condemns young

women who have sex as having lost their virtue while the same behavior for young men elevates their

status in their peer group. Pick one of the following angles to respond to.

a) What social function did this double standard serve before the sexual revolution came along and why

did women need “liberation” from it?

b) Does the double standard still exist in the specific sub-culture represented by the community of UCI

undergraduates? [to be fair, multiple sub-cultures exist on the campus; so, consider the one you wish to

write about.]

c) Describe an incident from your own experience (or “this happened to my friend”) that illustrates the

double standard at work today.

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