ABSTRACT
The one significant difference between the books of the sixties and those of the fifties was a growing but reluctant recognition of women's sexuality, as cautious references to the clitoris as the source of sexual pleasure for women became more frequent. While the youth of the sixties were exploring the outer limits of reality with LSD, protesting the Vietnam War, the sex educators of that decade wrote dozens of books that attempted to keep the lid on a sexual revolution that was already well underway. The greatest fault of Love and Sex in Plain Language, but one that was remedied in later editions, is the inadequate description of female sexuality. There is no drawing of female external genitalia and no explanation of the function of the clitoris. Perhaps the most important precedent set by Girls and Sex is a factual and informed chapter on "The female orgasm".
