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.