TIM CAVANAUGH on the Seventies and the sexual revolution. “I always suspect that what was driving the suburban swingers who (at least in popular imagination) hit the key party circuit a few years later was a sense of having missed the party, that great opening up of consciousness and legs that marked the blessed-out sixties. Everybody has been plagued by the sense that somebody somewhere is getting laid in ecstatic new ways while you’re slaving over a hot stove. But suburbanites in the early seventies had actual reason to believe it.”