Women of that decade, fossilised by the media, were exulting in magic home appliances and labouring over perfectly laid-out dinners for their perfect American families. And in 2017, the death of this other salesman of The American Dream has attracted plenty of attention and debate. He’s been credited with bringing in the “sexual revolution” and breaking of prudish taboos. What I find outrageous are the eulogies that have sprung up calling him the pioneer of the sexual revolution. While the perfect American housewife is busy making pancakes and babies, here are women to whom domestic routine means nothing, living it up in a palace of desire.

Source: Hindustan Times October 07, 2017 16:07 UTC