David Kynaston

Were the Sixties really so liberated?

The era’s famed sexual revolution involved the exploitation of teenage girls, misogynist films and widespread homophobia, as Peter Doggett shows

Sue Lyon in the title role of Stanley Kubrick’s film Lolita (1962). Peter Doggett describes the almost systemic objectification of young girls in the 1960s. [Alamy]

  • Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties

    Peter Doggett

    The Bodley Head, pp. 368, £25

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