David Allyn Papers
Provenance
Donation of David Allyn.
Scope and Content
David Allyn is the author of “MAKE LOVE NOT WAR: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: AN UNFETTERED HISTORY” (Little, Brown and Company), 2000. He turned over his research material to the Center archive in 2004. The folders contain research material and handwritten notes with biographical information. The subjects are the file titles – they are in more or less in the order received and not reorganized. LGBT periodicals were moved to the Periodicals Collection. Non-gay periodicals and a minor amount of duplicate material has been discarded. The collection contains 44 audio cassette tapes of well known persons. All tapes have been transferred to the server as wav and mp3 files. These is some correspondence with the Literary Agent. The author maintain copyright to his work.
History or Bio
David Allyn graduated from Brown University in 1991 with an honors degree in Literature and Society. He received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1996 and currently teaches at Princeton University. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Daily News and the Journal of American Studies. He has appeared on CNN and MSNBC and has lectured on the sexual revolution at conferences and colleges across the country.
Quote from bool review:
“In an unprecedented look at the personalities, events, and ideas that shaped one of the greatest upheavals of American society, David Allyn approaches the subject of the sexual revolution with a meticulous combination of historical facts and enthusiastic personal accounts. MAKE LOVE NOT WAR: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: AN UNFETTERED HISTORY (Little, Brown and Company) is the first serious treatment of the changes in daily life in the 1960s and ’70s that inspired a new age of sexual openness in American society. First hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research meld to reveal changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful ’50s, to the first tremors of rebellion in the early ’60s, to the heady heyday of the Revolution.
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR intertwines the stories of the major players of the revolution–sexual freedom fighters, feminists, scientists, pornographers, gay activists, First Amendment lawyers, and others who made the headlines–with the testimony of ordinary people–men and women who dared to take risks in their private lives and share their experiences with others. Allyn brilliantly illustrates how the yearning for a freer, more open society brought these various and diverse people together. In Allyn’s extraordinary book, the sexual revolution is intimately depicted through:
A personal interview with Sex and the Single Girl author, Helen Gurley Brown
The evolution of ‘the pill’ and how it allowed women to have ‘worry-free sex any time, any place’
Stories of spouse swapping, swinging, group sex, and other erotic adventures
Personal interviews with gays and lesbians who lived through bar raids and ‘moral squads’
Photos of hippies, gays, and lesbians demonstrating, nude and otherwise, for their sexual freedom
Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner’s hatred of and intent to destroy the feminist movement.”
Folder List
Box 1
1. OAH (AHA) Meeting 1997
2. Agents & Publishers
3. Article “All the Advertising that’s Fit to Print” c.1977
4. Article on Gay Movement by Jim Kepner
5. Articles Raymond Holder poet
6. Articles Stephanie Kenen
7. “Children of Revolution”
8. Comedy “Inviting Trouble” 1997
9. Court Case Stanley vs State of Georgia (obscene matter)
10. Diary 1999
11. Articles 1971
12. Articles 1972
13. Research Comic Books
14. Research Deep Throat
15. Research Disabled
16. Research FBI files
17. Research Lyle Staurt Breaking Through in Sex Publishing
18. Research Obscenity
19. Research Penthouse (Guccine Paintings)
20. Research Prostitution
21. Research Notes Publications 1940s
22. Research Sex Laws
23. Research Sexual Freedom League Folder #1
24. Research Sexual Freedom League Folder #2
25. Research Sexual Freedom League Folder #3
26. Research Shere Hite 1976
27. Research Sweden
28. Research Swinging
29. Research Theater
30. Research Mishkin/Knoghts
31. [Publishing] Little Brown & Co.
32. Draft Change 2
33. Draft of Intro
34. Recommendations on file from Harvard
35. Permission of Research
36. Research Pill, the
37. Research Playboy
38. “Seeds of Peace” [Israelis & Arabs]
39. Novel – “Cell” by David Havelock
40. Manuscript – “The Rebellion of Robert Rimmer” by David Smith
41. Research Various Subjects
Box 2
42. Footnotes [to Manuscript]
43. Research Notebook #1
44. Research Notebook #2
45. Research Notes
46. Research Notes
47. Research Porn Misc.
48. Research Race
49. Research Rechy, John
50. Literary Agent – Janklow & Nesbit Agreement & Payments
51. Thesis – First Seventeen Years of “Seventeen” Kristin L. Vassallo
52. Thesis – “On the Pill” Elizabeth R. S. Wathins 1996
53. Wilhelm Reich & Female Sexuality & Notes
54. Job search
55. Resume
56. Manuscript “Make Love Not War”
57. Articles 1968
58. Articles 1973
59. Articles 1965
60. Articles 1974
61. Articles 1966
62. Articles 1969
63. Research “Playgirl”
64. Public Sex, Nudity 1970
65. Research Television
66. Certificate of Graduation Brown University BA
67. Research Journal Information
68. Research Bisexuality
69. Research Helen Gurley Brown
70. Diary – Paris June/July 1991 (David & partner)
71. Research Bill of Rights Fund (Columbia)
72. Research Bios Misc.
73. Barnard Sexuality Conference
74. Research Anarchists – Free Love (Diary Ben Reitman)
75. Research Anthropology
76. Research Age – Old
77. Research Advertising
78. Research Sexism
79. Research WAP [file title, not explained]
80. Research Fromu~ [file title, not explained]
81. Research Larry Flint Publications
82. Research Lesbians
83. Research Pro-Porn
84. Research Radical Feminism
85. Research Rape
86. Griswold, Estelle FPOHP
87. Esquire Magazine Court Case 1946
88. Research “Fanny Hill” Case
89. Research Abortion
90. Research Ginsberg Case
91. Research Lesbian Herstory Archives
92. Research Dr. Albert Ellis
93. Research Feminism
94. Research Drugs
95. Betty Dobson “Liberating Masturbation” 1974
96. Research Book Alex Comfort
97. Research communes (Manuscript 39 pps)
98. Research Viva
99. “Tropic of Cancer”
100. Draft pages of Book
Box 3
101. Research Children (Peda)
102. FUGS (Dreams of Sexual Perfection)
103. Research, Guyon, Rene (Homan rights & sexual Rights)
104. Kinsey
105. Interviews
106. Research Sex Education
107. Research Sociology, SMTS
108. Research Sex Revolution
109. Research Singles Bars
110. Research Sexual Hygiene
111. Diploma From Georgetown Day School 1987 (David Alan Smith)
112. Research notes – no folder
113. Roberta Hill Correspondence #1 of 2 1974
114. Roberta Hill Correspondence #2 of 2 1974
115. Journal of Jennifer Wilcha 9/1988 – 8/1989
116. Research “Screw”
117. Research Edward Sugarin
118. Research Bertrand Russell
119. Research Roth & Albert
120. Research Rock [Music]
121. Research Sexploitation
122. Research Lenny Bruce
123. Research Clippings-Recent 1980-1990s
124. Research Colleges/Parietal
125. Research Linda Le Claire
126. Research A. L. I. (American Law Institute)
127. Research Religion
128. Research Notes, no title
129. Play “The Lobby” [one act play c. 2000]
130. Talks
131. Masters & Johnson
132. Class notes, Department of History, Western Civilization
133. Research Hells Angels
134. Einstein, Robert
135. Motion Picture “I am Curious Yellow”
136. History & Sex
137. Research Hippies
138. Lemon, German
139. Homo 1990s
140. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
141. Jim Jones
142. Institute for Advanced Study & Human Sexuality
143. Paul Krassner
144. Research Homosexuality mid 1960s
145. Kronhayers, Pornography – The Law, Ballentine 1959
146. Invoices 1991-1992
147. Photos unidentified college age students
148. Research L/G Newsletters
149. Research S & M
150. Research Sexology History
Audio Tape List
1. Bancroft, Iris
2. Bellin, Howard 5/06/1998
3. Broumolle, Susan
4. Brown, Helen G.
5. Dourhin
6. Eichel, Ed
7. Eichel, Ed 4/22/1996
8. Ellis Albert
9. Ellis Albert 01/08/1994 Tape 2
10. Ellis, Albert 10/28/1995 Tape 2
11. Evans, Sara
12. Flynt, Larry 10/28/1995
13. Gaccione, Bob
14. Hefner, Hugh 3/029/1995
15. Holland, Sarah 3/16/1998
16. Jiacalore, Bill
17. Kepfobug, Tol
18. Koedt, Anne 1/28/1996
19. Koedt, Anne 1/28/1996
20. NY conference
21. Painter, Nell
22. Painter, Nell
23. Pitchfed, Ken
24. Pitchfed, Kenneth
25. Rechy, John
26. Renslow, Chuck 11/18/1994
27. Rila, Marco
28. Risset, Barney/Meyers, Astnel
29. Roberta
30. Roberta & Lloyd
31. Roberta et. Al.
32. Roberta et. Al.
33. Roberta et. Al.
34. Roberta & Lloyd
35. Sanders, Ed FUGS
36. Seamen, Barbara 4/22/1996
37. Seamen, Barbara 4/22/1996
38. Steinem, Gloria 12/05/1997
39. Wicker, Randy 12/28/1995