Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl

In 1962, Helen Gurley Brown wrote a best-selling novel titled, Sex and the Single Girl. She was a vocal advocate of women’s sexual freedom and her fashion-focused magazine, Cosmopolitan,  claimed that women could have it all – “love, sex, and money.”  She coined the phrase, “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere” as she focused on the self-made, ambitious, glamorous, unashamed, and sexual model for the successful and full-filled woman.  It is reasonable to say that women had as much right and freedom to determine their own path in life as their male counterparts and not to treated as anything less, but it is interesting to see if this path Helen Gurley Brown has help to pave has been a healthy one for today’s young woman.  Her coined phrase has certainly seemed to pit God’s plan against her own vision.

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