The taboo of premarital sex for women
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Several societal changes in connection with the Sexual Revolution removed the taboos against American women for premarital sex around 1960. (Women in other countries followed the American lead with a time lag.) This coincided with an economic boom that led to the rise of the so-called Great Society. They include:
1) The availability of "oral" contraception (the "Pill") for women. Although condoms had been around for some decades, women could use birth control on their own instead of getting their men to use condoms.
2)The rise of "career" women. Prior to the 1960s, most married women were housewives who could not support a child on their own. (See TV shows of the 1950s such as "Leave It to Beaver" or "Ozzie and Harriet.") Until then, women worked only in the brief interval between school and marriage, and mostly in "low level" jobs such as secretaries or clerks. When women started pursuing careers in large numbers, they found that they could be single mothers, as divorcees, (and of children born before marriage). The 1960s was a time when divorce became far more acceptable, making never-married "unwed" mothers less unacceptable as well.
3) The rise of welfare payments. Poor, badly educated women who couldn't find jobs could go on "public assistance" in large numbers, and raise children that way. (They didn't have to give up their children for adoption.)
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Your claim that the practice of premarital sex became a norm is wrong.
Actually a different thing happened: the marriage became forced, mandatory for men. A DNA test can easily show who is the father of the child and the woman can apply for child support. The man is forced in this kind of forced marriage.
Since the primary function of official marriage was to ensure the children would be fed by the father, now this function is void: the woman does not need to sign any contract to force men to feed their children without their consent. As such the official marriage became unneeded.
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Yes, this is correct. The taboo existed and since 1960th gradually goes away. The reasons are a) equal rights for women, b) spread of contraceptives, and c) general decline of religion. For some people in the West who take religion seriously it is still a taboo.
Another question is where did this taboo come from. It begins with the practice of marriage, at the time when people realized what is the role of a father in making children. The simple desire to know who is the father of which child led to the establishment of marriage and to this taboo. One of the main functions of any religion is to enforce it.
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