Roaring Twenties Video Analysis

This video goes over how much sex has changed since the 20th century. Sex and masturbation was considered immoral or sinful in the early 1900’s. Comstock made it where it was illegal to send or receive any pornographic messages or anything to do with sex. Once World War I came around, men were diagnosed with syphilis and gonorrhea. Then the 1920’s or ‘Roaring Twenties’ became the sexual decade, introducing the Flapper. A young women who wanted to enjoy herself sexually. In this time period Gays and Lesbians started to come out and celebrate. Contraception or condoms became a new element when having sex. As time progressed men and women became more sexually active. For example, once World War II happened women were found to be encountering in affairs, and the same goes with the men overseas. For women, the ‘pill’ or birth control
Then once they discovered HIV/AIDS, and learning that Rock Hudson, a famous American actor died from HIV/AIDS, America became aware of how lethal the disease was and started having safer sex. In the video some of the issues that were completely new to me was that women thought that the bicycle would stimulate or injure sexual organs. The censorship of cows being milked was a new matter I was not aware of. Not only there was censorship of cows being milked but also in Hollywood movies a kiss had to last a certain time. Time has really progressed because nowadays “Fifty Shades of Grey” was produced and that movie is raunchy and absolutely terrible. “Fifty Shades of Grey” would be a movie that would have been banned back then. Another issue I was unfamiliar with was learning that the FBI kept files on the sex lives of government officials because they linked homosexuality and communism together. Many of the other issues in this video that was explained, I learned about them in a History class but did not explicitly go over the details of