\n
\nSex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth, but it’s usually
\ntoo battered with rules to be heard. We cripple ourselves with lies. Most
\npeople have no idea of what they’re missing, our society places a supreme
\nvalue on control, on hiding what you feel. It mocks primitive culture and
\nprides itself on the suppression of natural instincts and impulses.<\/b>
\n
Jim Morrison<\/center><\/p>\nMany people accuse hippies of being promiscuous, having wild sex orgies,
\nseducing innocent teenagers and every manner of sexual perversion. There’s
\nno denying that many hippies were involved in temporary sexual relationships
\nand sexual experimentation unlike any generation before them. Yet this
\nhuge experiment with Free Love was an actual sexual revolution that liberated
\nmillions of Americans from the prevailing puritan sexual attitudes and
\nhang-ups of the 1950’s.
\n <\/p>\nInstead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgiastic bliss, sex
\nin the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless
\nnational compulsion, <\/b>
\n
if not a contemptuous mockery.<\/b>
\n
Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique) 1963<\/center><\/p>\n As kids growing up in America in the ’50s and early ’60s we were exposed
\nto a variety of mixed signals regarding sex and love. Love was romanticized
\nin the media as something that either just happened to you (love at first
\nsight), or a thing that grew over time as a couple got to know each other
\nbetter. Sex was something that was rarely discussed and when it was, our
\nelders admonished us against such horrors as masturbation and premarital
\nsex. This lack of communication between adults and children helped create
\nthe generation gap.
\n <\/p>\nFirst came love, then came marriage, then came (you) in the baby
\ncarriage!<\/b>
\n
Children’s song<\/center><\/p>\n We were taught that proper sex was reserved for those who loved each
\nother, got married, and had children. Thus sex, love, marriage and children
\nwere sold as a complete package that couldn’t be separated. Any other type
\nof sex was considered deviant and would lead to unfortunate consequences
\n(bastard children, disease, perversion, and even death). These messages
\nabout sex never made it seem like fun much less an intimate loving activity.
\nThe few interesting things we knew about sex we gleaned in whispers from
\nour friends or from furtive glances at a hidden copy of Playboy magazine.
\n <\/p>\nMen and women are not free to love decently until they have <\/b>
\n
analysed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from
\nsex.<\/b>
\n
Aleister Crowley<\/center><\/p>\n Then in 1966 a book was published called Human Sexual Response by Masters
\nand Johnson. An extremely thorough clinical study, it shed light on just
\nwhat happens during sex. All of a sudden, sex became the hot topic in America.
\nAnother popular book, Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Sex
\n(But Were Afraid to Ask) answered some common questions about sex (not
\nvery well). Then came The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort, which by its very
\ntitle reflected America’s changing attitude (in 1972) towards sex. At long
\nlast, the secret was out, sex can be fun.
\n <\/p>\nWe do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, <\/b>
\n
always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents,<\/b>
\n
all of a sudden have discovered that sex is <\/b>
\n
good not only for procreating children.<\/b>
\n
Oriana Fallaci (Italian author)<\/center><\/p>\n This rather sudden enlightenment concerning human sexuality didn’t just
\nhappen due to a few books. America’s willingness to discuss sex was a result
\nof the profound Sexual Revolution already well underway. Sex was everywhere,
\nand the media played it up. Sexually suggestive advertising took off once
\nad agencies discovered that sex sells. Foreign blue movies like I Am
\nCurious Yellow challenged obscenity laws and paved the way for the porno
\nindustry.<\/p>\n The fashion industry took its cue and raised hemlines drastically, creating
\nthe mini-skirt and see through blouses. Women expressed their newfound
\nfreedom by going one step further and freeing their breasts from the confinement
\nof brassieres, much to the fashion industry’s dismay and many a man’s delight!
\n <\/p>\nIf it feels good, do it!<\/b>
\n
popular hippie saying<\/center><\/p>\n So what led to this sexual revolution in the ’60s? How did we
\nget from No sex before marriage to If it feels good do it? The answer
\nis simple. Hippies. The hippie movement had a profound influence on sexual
\nfreedom in the U.S. and elsewhere. This revolution in sexual attitudes
\nwas more than a reaction to the prudish mores of the 50s and early 60s.
\nIt was a release from all social inhibitions that characterized hippies.
\n <\/p>\nYou have to see the sex act comically, as a child.<\/b>
\n
W. H. Auden<\/center><\/p>\n Again the Beat generation must be credited with living and writing about
\nsexual freedom. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others
\nlived unusually free, sexually expressive lives. Their writings influenced
\nthe hippies to open up when it came to sex, and to experiment without guilt
\nor jealousy.
\n <\/p>\nAll you need is love<\/b>
\n
The Beatles<\/center><\/p>\n Ginsberg was there at the first Human Be-In in San Francisco telling
\neveryone to love one another. At Love-Ins, the hippies listened to, and
\nexperienced a different view of love and sex. We learned that sex is just
\nanother part of life like eating and sleeping. It’s a completely natural
\nway to express ourselves. We learned to overcome those fears programmed
\ninto us, and to share our bodies as easily as we share our food or our
\nthoughts.
\n <\/p>\nIf you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with\u2026<\/b>
\n
Steven Stills<\/center><\/p>\n The concept of Free Love as expressed by hippies meant you were free
\nto love whomever you pleased, whenever you pleased, however you pleased.
\nThis encouraged spontaneous sexual activity and experimentation. Group
\nsex, public sex, sex with minors, homosexuality, all the taboos went out
\nthe window. This doesn’t mean that straight sex, between two adults, or
\nmonogamy was unknown, quite the contrary. Nevertheless, the open relationship
\nbecame an accepted part of the hippy lifestyle. This meant that you might
\nhave a primary relationship with one person, but if another attracted you,
\nyou could explore that relationship without rancor or jealousy.
\n <\/p>\n‘Tis the most commonplace thing in the world, to love one man to
\ndistraction and to fuck frenziedly with another; you don’t give your heart
\nto him, just your body . . . . There are two manners of loving a man: morally
\nand physically.<\/b>
\n
Marquis de Sade<\/center><\/p>\n Free love made the whole love, marriage, sex, baby package obsolete.
\nLove was no longer limited to one person, you could love anyone you chose.
\nIn fact love was something you shared with everyone, not just your sex
\npartners. Love exists to be shared freely. We also discovered the more
\nyou share, the more you get! So why reserve your love for a select
\nfew? This profound truth was one of the great hippie revelations.
\n <\/p>\nYour daughter is old enough to do what she pleases . . . she likes
\nto fuck, loves to fuck . . . she was born to fuck, and . . . if you do
\nnot wish to be fucked yourself, the best thing for you to do is to let
\nher do what she wants.<\/b>
\n
Marquis de Sade<\/center><\/p>\n The feeling among hippies was that what two (or more) consenting adults
\n(or teenagers) did in private was their business. It’s likely that many
\na na\u00efve youngster was seduced by an older more experienced hippy.
\nMany of the young kids who ran away from home and joined the hippie movement
\nwere victims of child abuse (as are many runaways today). The hippie subculture
\nthus rejected the prevailing moral code due to the manifest hypocrisy of
\nadults. The tools of teenage rebellion were (and still are) sex, drugs
\nand rock and roll.<\/p>\n For hippies, sex was something spontaneous. If you met someone you were
\nattracted to, and the circumstances were suitable, you had sex. It could
\nhappen in a crash pad, in a van, in the woods or at a festival. Free love
\nwas everywhere, but especially in places like communes where sex was a
\ncommodity. Hippies didn’t care what other people thought. I remember seeing
\nTV news footage of hippies screwing in a city park, enjoying themselves
\nwith abandon, oblivious to camera crews and passersby.<\/p>\n It may be necessary to remind younger readers that all this occurred
\nbefore AIDS became a scourge. Nevertheless, venereal disease was a common
\nproblem among the sexually active. Teenage pregnancy became so prevalent
\nthat the social stigma faded somewhat. Fortunately, the sexual openness
\nthat created these problems was soon to be addressed in public, resulting
\nin the opening of free clinics, sex education in schools, the liberalization
\nof abortion laws, and sexual product advertising. These things are
\na direct result of the sexual promiscuity that the hippies unleashed upon
\nsociety. <\/p>\n The puritanical inhibitions programmed by our parents, churches, peers
\nand schools were suddenly irrelevant. But the biggest release of inhibitions
\ncame about through the use of drugs, particularly marijuana and the psychedelics.
\nMarijuana is one of the best aphrodisiacs known to man. It enhances the
\nsenses, unlike alcohol, which dulls them. As any hippie can tell you, sex
\nis a great high, but sex on pot is fuckin’ far out!
\n <\/p>\nThe three inevitable goals of an LSD session are to discover <\/b>
\n
and make love with God, to discover and make love with yourself, <\/b>
\n
and to discover and make love with a woman.<\/b>
\n
Timothy Leary, Playboy Interview, September, 1966.<\/center><\/p>\n More importantly, the use of psychedelic drugs, especially LSD was directly
\nresponsible for liberating hippies from their sexual hang-ups. The LSD
\ntrip is an intimate soul wrenching experience that shatters the ego’s defenses,
\nleaving the tripper in a very poignant and sensitive state. At this point,
\na sexual encounter is quite possible if conditions are right. After an
\nLSD trip, one is much more likely to explore one’s own sexual nature without
\ninhibitions.
\n <\/p>\nAll nature’s creatures join to express nature’s purpose. <\/b>
\n
Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting <\/b>
\n
is the very secret of nature itself.<\/b>
\n
Graham Swift<\/center><\/p>\n The hippy reverence for nature and all things natural is part of the
\npagan belief system many adopted. Pagans see sex as a joyful expression
\nof our animal nature and not as something to be repressed. Many hippie
\nevents resemble the pagan rituals of old (remember the maypole dance –
\nPagan!). Music, drink, dancing, and drugs are as much a prelude to sex
\nas a celebration.
\n <\/p>\nSex has been condemned so much, you cannot enjoy it.<\/b>
\n
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh<\/center><\/p>\n Many hippies on the spiritual path found enlightenment through sex.
\nThe Kama Sutra, the Tantric sexual manual from ancient India is a way to
\ncosmic union through sex. Some gurus like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)
\nformed cults that focused on liberation through the release of sexual inhibitions.
\n <\/p>\nCoitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of
\nitself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply
\nwithin the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged
\nmicrocosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes.
\nAmong other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual
\nor personal plane.<\/b>
\n
Kate Millett (feminist)<\/center><\/p>\n This breaking down of society’s sexual mores by hippies led directly
\nto the Gay and Women’s Liberation movements. Hippies brought sex out into
\nthe open, not as consciously as those two movements did, but automatically,
\nbecause of their experimentation with free love. In fact the Gay and Women’s
\nLiberation movements are examples of what can be achieved through a more
\nrefined agenda and better organization. Hippies take note!<\/p>\n So hippies freed Americans from their puritanical sexual inhibitions
\nthrough the practice of free love, experimentation with psychedelics, and
\nrejection of the prevailing hypocritical morality. This resulted
\nin the free flow of information about sex, an expansion of women’s and
\ngay rights, and society’s keen interest in the health issues surrounding
\nsex.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n <\/center><\/p>\n Posted by: skip
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