Congregationalist Minister and Educator Robert Elliot Fitch calls the period of the sexual revolution "an orgy of open-mindedness." This was a period in which morals were left up to the individual and individual pleasure was what we wanted. Unlike the first sexual revolution following World War I, in which casual kissing was shocking, the sexual revolution of the 1960s was more about instant sexual gratification, in which long-haired, paint-faced hippies and "flower children" preached "free love".

Times were changing, but adults tried desperately to keep moral standards high. This was evident in Elvis' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Elvis' flamboyant moves on stage made authorities think twice about showing him completely on screen. Instead they only shot him from the waist up, so as not to excite young girls.

Parents, educators, and guardians were concerned about the effects of the newly introduced birth control pill. It liberated a young woman's sexual views substantially. Of the 39 million American women capable of motherhood, 12,700,000 were on the pill. Parents were concerned that this pill might promote promiscuity among young girls who would have formerly rejected premarital relations. However, physicians and sociologists agree that a girl who is promiscuous with the pill would have been promiscuous without it. Now, she's just more responsible.