Can someone explain to me about the free-love era of the 70s?

Question

Is it true that during the 70s anyone could sleep with anyone just for fun? Has the trend changed now?

Answer 1

Actually it did start in the late 60s around the time our guys started coming home from Viet-Nam. Girls who had boyfriends before the war had no one come home or the ones that came back were really screwed up. It was the introduction of drugs, sex and rock n roll to us, the kids, of total escapism, between pot, psychedelics, and sex we didn't have to think about the controversies, and I'm not talking about the war only. The controversies were our parents trying to rescue us from the return trying to force religion on us and putting down the guys we loved as baby killers etc. It was a time of rebellion from hell. We rebelled against everything,including clothes. There probably wasn't all that more sex, we just quit hiding to have it. The shock value was .....priceless...... You have to remember too that this is the only time that there was a draft and no thank yous when they returned. They were leaving at 18 with less than no guarantees, We couldn't let them leave VIRGINS.

Answer 2

Well, actually, even though the hippies of that generation would like to claim they were first free love proponents, historically that is inaccurate. You are always free to sleep with whomever. The difference of the free love era of the 1970's is that the free love part came in response to youth shaking off the traditional values taught to them by the older generation, including but not exclusive to, sexual values. The trend now is still towards extramarital or premarital sexual activity, but is shadowed and in large part defined by the harbinger of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's), which, while perhaps not limiting the amount of sex, impacts the variety of partners the smart modern sexually active adult chooses.

Answer 3

I was there.

It has helped ruin the moral value of North America.

We were allsold a bill of goods. The result of CIA introduced sickenesses like feminism and Playboyism. We were told this was "freedom". However, rather than get political, I will cut and paste part of a recent story I wrote. The story is called "Your Fingers"

"It was so much easier in the 60’s. I wasn’t obsessed with checking out hands and fingers and trying to mentally place them on my crotch. Back then, everyone sort of melted into everyone else, and there was no threat of herpes, pregnancy or AIDS. Herpes was not even considered. We all took the pill. HIV was unknown. We did it everywhere in every imaginable position. Oral sex, gentle sex, harsh sex, yogic sex. Hammocks, floors, bathtubs, indoors, outdoors! I loved all of it. The kissing and touching, sucking and f**king, and I never demanded anything, but did everything possible, lost in a decade of dope and sticky bed sheets for hours, days at a time. The person I was then really did love it and walked around all day with a buzz in her crotch for any guy who had played games with her. Finger-f**king was only something bad girls did on the way up to losing their virginity. It was not the prize at the end of the day. What I want now is the good old-fashioned lying in the back seat of his parent’s car, crotches touching, hands everywhere, soft and stroking, just learning how to touch and please. All that adolescence, innocence, and steamy windows. I don’t want to grow old. I don’t want to die. I want to get fingered and f**ked with innocence and lust. How many fingers could I take comfortably?

Did you, dear lover, ever go to orgies in the 60’s? Or were you just on the fringe, interested but afraid of losing yourself in the spiral of sex and drugs that enticed so many? Ok, so I have to accept the present and stop living in the sexual past. I am 50, with two almost grown-up daughters and I cannot stop the aging process. I know that. What I do not want to know is that I am sagging, have crow’s feet around my eyes, sometimes look haggard, and probably should reconsider hormone replacement therapy."

Such looseness of behaviour loosed a myriad of evils on the world. Illnesses and loss of respect for the act of love. What should be sublime is now no more than mutual masturbation.

I would like to think it has changed but, to be honest, I don't see it. Too many young people are doing what should have been saved for marriage. Nothing is sacred.

Answer 4

It wasn't "free" and it wasn't "love." It was sex, and it was bought on the "fly now, pay later" plan. Yes, sex was suddenly much more common and available, but not as much as now. (Societies tend to go down to the bottom before something drags them back up.)

But anyone with anyone? No, that'd be rape. Still is.

Answer 5

Er, that was the 60's. It was when people began to openly do what they'd been doing in secret for centuries. Yes, it is still going on today.

Answer 6

america reached its promiscuous pinnacle and then aids was implemented by our government

Answer 7

it was the 60's and we were all on acid trips

Answer 8

Yep and they got all sorts of STD's. and no we learnt our lessons.