David Allyn, Ph.D., is the author of Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History. He is also the author of I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How Embarrassment Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life and How To Conquer It. His humorous essays on human behavior have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications. His play, Baptizing Adam, won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play. Allyn was born on April 30, 1969.
Readers who lived through these heady events will appreciate his fresh perspective, while those of his generation (he was born in 1969) may be amazed to learn, for example, that birth control was illegal in many states as late as 1965.
Allyn's broad sweep occasionally gives short shrift to historical background in areas like birth control or obscenity in literature.
And he falters badly in his final chapter, virtually ignoring the feminist defense of sexual freedom and putting too much emphasis on the coalition of antipornography feminists and the religious right in his recounting of the decline of sexual liberation.
DavidAllyn, Ph.D., is the author of Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History.
He is also the author of I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How Embarrassment Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life and How To Conquer It.
Allyn has been profiled twice in the New York Times, first by Bob Morris in the Sunday Styles Section (2003) and then in a piece on New York living in the Sunday Homes section (2005).
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