In a 1989 essay, "Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess," from a newly edited collection of her writings, the late American critic Ellen Willis discussed a dilemma the women's movement faced in the '70s. With the advent of the '60s counterculture came so-called free love, a throwing-off of social mores that stifled sexual expression, and Willis welcomed it. But when feminism arose in tandem, she realized true sexual liberation couldn't happen without confronting the male mind-set, because many of the men who embraced the free sex ethos didn't appreciate women's interpretation of it if it meant challenging their own impulses.