Morality In The 1920's

From 1850 to 1914 the intimacy of a husband and wife was kept a secret. “The home was a center of secrecy. More often than not, at the heart of that secrecy was sex” (Sherman and Salisbury, 2009, p. 672). Unfortunately, in the twentieth century, the sexual activity of a man and a woman in and out of marriage is often discussed and no longer private. To see how society allowed this intimacy to become known we must look at the change in morality of the 1920’s; this can be done by examining the change in fashion and how the culture of the 1920’s affected the way we think about sex today. First, the women’s apparel of the 1920’s became more skimpy and revealing than before. In the 1920’s the fashionable length of the skirts women wore were slightly above the knee and the fabric was very fine and thin. The flappers came to be the dress to wear to a party instead of an elegant gown. Flapper dresses were usually made out of very thin and silky fabric with a very low cut in the back, making it impossible for one to wear any undergarments underneath the dress. But in order to wear these clothes one had to think a certain way. Second, the culture of the 1920’s was constantly filled with seeking to find pleasure with the opposite sex. Many ads and commercials showed …show more content…
As time went on, many ideas and fashions of the 1900’s moved into the twentieth century discarding the cumbersome rituals and guidelines of times long past. In the twentieth century, we have accepted that it is ok to discuss the relations between man and his wife in public no matter the time or place; this is discarding the privacy of the man and wife and throwing it into the wind. Yes, time moves on, but we should never discard those things which are sacred to some who would rather have it more than anything: