Women’s rights and male license were traveling on similar tracks. Imagine asking an average Playboy reader during the Johnson administration to dictate a new sexual “constitution” that would replace the old one. His preconceptions and practical demands—on the oppressiveness of marriage, on the availability of birth control, on the desirability of mixing the sexes—would likely have overlapped with those of feminism, even if the ideals in the name of which those changes were sought were alleged to differ. In 1974, Virginia Slims found that women backed “most of the efforts to strengthen and
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