1. Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), pp. 37-41.

2. There is a small body of work on the term sexual revolution. I have adopted the argument that Gayle Rubin made in "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sex," in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. Carole Vance (Boston: Routledge, 1984). See also Jeffrey Weeks, Sexuality and Its Discontents (London: Routledge, 1985), esp. pp. 15-32. More recently, Weeks discusses the sexual revolution as an interrupted historical process in "An Unfinished Revolution: Sexuality in the Twentieth Century," in Pleasure Principles: Politics, Sexuality, and Ethics, ed. Victoria Harwood, David Oswell, Kay Parkinson, and Anna Ward (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993). See the use of the term in Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs, Remaking Love: The Feminization of Sex (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1986). On the historical evidence for a sexual revolution, see Daniel Scott Smith, "The Dating of the American Sexual Revolution: Evidence and Interpretation," in American Family (2d ed.), ed. M. Gordon. For an argument against using the term sexual revolution, see Albert D. Klassen et al., Sex and Morality in the U.S. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1989), pp. 3-16.

3. Perry Anderson, Lineages of the Absolute State (London: New Left Books, 1974), p. 8.

4. Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex," in Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna R. Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975). See also John Gagnon and William Simon, Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality (Chicago: Aldine, 1973), pp. 287-88.

5. Gagnon and Simon, Sexual Conduct, pp. 287-307.

6. 6. Weeks, Sexuality and Its Discontents , p. 16.