The postwar years represented a return to the moral order, reinforced by the context of the Cold War. This order gradually began to crack and ultimately came apart during the 1960s as a result of young people’s demand for “sexual liberation.” The youth policies of the time tended to establish a biopolitics of sexuality, as the young demonstrated a desire for autonomy that helped shape a global politics with sexual implications: the sexual revolution. Sexuality thus became a generational tool in the fight for youth rights, but gender norms remained largely unchanged. Nevertheless, during this time, alternative sexual cultures—feminist, gay, and lesbian—emerged, including among the working classes.