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The permissive society is a label given to a society where social norms are becoming increasingly liberal. This usually accompanies a change in what is considered deviant. An extreme of permissiveness would be a society that has few moral codes beyond "do not harm others". Aspects that often change as a society becomes more permissive:
- Sexual freedom increases. This includes the freedom to take part in sexual activities which were previously considered unacceptable or even criminalized, such as BDSM, fetishes, and homosexuality. (This view is controversial, however, as such "abnormalities" like these have existed since the beginning of time)
- Freedom to view violent and sexual material including movies, music, art and literature increases, and censorship of these and other arts decreases.
- The power of religious groups decreases, often accompanied by a rising secularism.
The most cited example is that of the social revolution of 1960s in Europe and America both in the new attitudes to the arts, abortion, homosexuality and capital punishment. As well as to the general loosening of Britain's adherence to Victorian Values.
Though some view permissiveness as a good thing, social conservatives claim contemporary societal beliefs destroy the structure for a civilized and valid society. For example, fewer divorces, sexually transmitted diseases and controlled crime are acceptable notions. It should be noted that totalitarianism can invoke either social stance, regardles of magnitiude.
Others answer that these things were outcomes of repressiveness, where biological units in freethinking thought have contributed to an aiding society where freethinkers thrive, without having to fear repression through intolerance.
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