Sentence examples for permissive societies from inspiring English sources

In the final analysis, anorgasmy is psychological in origin; few, if any, females lack the neurophysiology necessary for orgasm, and anthropology shows that in sexually permissive societies virtually all females have little difficulty in attaining orgasm in coitus.

But Callaghan was never a man for permissive societies: his background in working-class Portsmouth, his bent for the practical rather than the philosophical, and a sense of nonconformist morality which persisted when his churchgoing days were over, marked him down as conservative rather than as progressive.

The "permissive society" never recovered.

We tend to think our present permissive society is new.

The excesses of the so-called permissive society appalled him.

A priapic sociology lecturer, Kirk duly took advantage of the arrival of the "permissive society".

Our permissive society – rather than inculcating virtue and responsibility – wallows in the mire of libidinousness.

Hitchens lays the blame squarely at the door of the "permissive society".

We're also a "permissive society" thanks to liberal legislation introduced since the 1960s.

3. The permissive society? 4. British membership of the European Union? 5. Prince Charles? 6.

The New Yorker, February 26 , 1972P. 82 We tend to think our present permissive society is new.