E isto nos anos 60

«We have gone a long way in keeping alive infants who should once have died, in giving glasses to those with poor eyesight, hearing devices to the hard of hearing, prostheses to the crippled. We have gone a long way in insisting on a common style of marriage regardless of temperament or idiosyncratic preference. We have rebelled against and economic order in which men could afford to marry or to have children. We have been committed to an egalitarianism which attempts to iron out the most gross discrepancies among human beings and between sexes, and which, in the process, disallows individuality. In trying to give each young couple a full biological life from puberty on, we necessarily neglect individual differences in courtship and in mating. The more young people we succeed in marrying off and keeping married – to someone – the more alike all marriages become. It may well be that a necessary next step may be the exploration of difference and provision for many different styles of self-realization and sex behavior.»

Male and female, Margaret Mead