ABSTRACT
Beckoning towards freedom Between the 1960s and the 1990s Britain, like most other parts of the Western world, underwent a historic transition in sexual beliefs and intimate behaviour. There was no single cause (the Pill is most often seen as the deus ex machina, but is only one spur), no regular pattern across regions and countries, no common agenda for its main actors, chiefly members of the baby boom generation. The process was messy, contradictory and haphazard. But in the end it drew in and involved millions of people, reimagining and remaking their lives in myriad different ways. Its implications are still working their way through what today is an almost unrecognizable world.
