premarital sex was taboo; state law banned birth control and abortion. In the fall of 1963 Harvard administrators cracked down on “misuse” of parietals, the limited hours that women could be in the Harvard houses (provided they kept the door open and one foot on the floor). The dean of students warned that it would be “scandalous” if the public discovered that students were having sex in the Harvard houses: “It’s our positive duty to deal with fornication just as we do with thievery, lying and cheating—by taking severe disciplinary measures against the offenders.”
This is what the GOP wants to go back to.
