Attitudes to sex in the 1980s were more liberal than is sometimes assumed. But the decade was very different from the liberated 1960s and rebellious 1970s. The AIDS pandemic and rise of political conservatism impacted how young people viewed sex. Despite a climate of fear and repression, a survey in 1986 had very surprising results….
Here is Mary Whitehouse in 1985 arguing against the movie director Michael Winner and a group of hunks dressed as the cinematic hero Rambo
In 1979, the Left in Iran and the UK condemned the seizure of power by Khomeini and the clergy but since then, attitudes seem to have regrettably shifted
In recent years, Thatcher has been lauded as a feminist icon – an idea that would have been laughed at in the 1980s
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – and an 80s womens group at Liverpool University
The early 1980s saw a surge in anti-nuclear protest with the Greenham Common peace camp, CND and a movement against nukes
