Free Love
Did the ACLU’s involvement in the ’60s Greenwich Village scene help American courts strike down draconian sex laws? Leigh Ann Wheeler, the author of How Sex Became a Civil Liberty, on how civil libertarians invented sexual liberties.
Leigh Ann Wheeler is associate professor of history at Binghamton University. She is coeditor of the Journal of Women's History and the author of Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935 and How Sex Became a Civil Liberty.