. >>> next, on lectures in history, indiana university professor john bodnar talks about the idea of sexual freedom in the 1950s. and the beginning of dissent against cold war era moral values. professor bodnar describes how america in the 1950s saw itself as a morally righteous nation and how virtue is seen as tied to patriotism. he lists the publication of the kinsey reports on male and female sexuality, the creation of playboy, and the development of the birth control pill as factors that promoted the stirrings of a revolt against prevailing cultural norms. this class is a little under an hour. >>> good afternoon. we have been talking about the cold war and the relationship between the cold war and its global dimension of fighting communism and its domestic dimension of promoting certain outlooks and certain values that were seen as indispensable to america's fight against communism in the world. so as we have discussed already, the cold war not only had a military component, but it had a moral component. it had a dimension where if you were to be seen, in american society, as an

. >>> next, on lectures in history, indiana university professor john bodnar talks about the idea of sexual freedom in the 1950s. and the beginning of dissent against cold war era moral values. professor bodnar describes how america in the 1950s saw itself as a morally righteous nation and how virtue is seen as tied to patriotism. he lists the publication of the kinsey reports on male and female sexuality, the creation of playboy, and the development of the birth contril