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Women who worked on Madison Avenue through the Sixties insist that more sex went on in their offices than you’ll ever see on Mad Men. ‘It was in the air,’ one woman says. ‘You breathed it.’
Lots of romantic liaisons went on outside the office, too. The single account executives at Young & Rubicam had apartments in the city. The more senior — usually married — men, who turned out to be the real swingers, had glamorous homes with wives stashed away in them, so the Hotel Lexington became their favourite trysting spot.
It was just a few blocks from the agency, and was favoured because the front desk clerks didn’t raise an eyebrow when you asked for a key at noon and returned it at two. If you met fellow staff members coming through the lobby, you simply averted your eyes. It’s hard to believe such things went on — and so blatantly — in what we often perceive as less liberal times. But they did.
But why was sex so rampant, so flagrant, then? The main reason - the Pill became widely available, with doctors writing out prescriptions for single women as well as for married ones. Suddenly, women didn’t have to worry as much about getting pregnant.
The boss was in control of your salary, your raise, your career advancement... your life. If he wanted to go to bed with you, you had to ask yourself what mattered more: your self-respect or your career. It was a difficult choice to make. But it wasn’t always the men making moves on their secretaries — women did their fair share of seducing, too. The best way to get promoted from secretary to copywriter was for your boss to make it happen. And there were some women who believed the fastest way to make that happen was to make it with your boss.
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