Posted on 03/28/2019 5:37:55 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
It was the time of 'free love' but abortion was not legal until 73'. I'm sure all that sex was available but young women still take a chance every time they hopped in the sack with a stranger. They had to be self protective. The media made one feel that if you weren't getting it early and often you were missing out. Was that the case? We're being lied to today about too much. What about back then?
It was fun, really, really fun even for a Nixon loving conservative like me. The women were normal, not like the little pink haired psychotics that I see today.
It was more complicated than that: abortion was a state level issue. It was legal in some states under various circumstances and illegal in other states. Abortion was widely available. The pill was available to most young women, at least those in college or metropolitan areas.
I don’t know the statistics, but most of the guys I knew had their first sexual experience around 16-18 and most girls somewhere between 15-20. At least, that encompassed everyone I knew or knew of, with maybe one exception.
Guys tended to have more partners than girls. In my experience, they guys I knew probably averaged 6-8 partners by their mid-20s, girls, 2-4.
Yes, there was a lot of more casual sex going on. Saw it, heard it, participated in some, but not as extensively as others I knew.
Same with drugs. Endless supply, but we learned what could harm you before you just tossed it down your throat. A shared sense of awareness.
There’s enough information floating around to make me certain that the entire drugs, sex & rock’n’roll late 60’s-70s was at the very least facilitated via the intelligence services.
Free love
free speech (which meant dropping lots of f-bombs in all
sorts of venues)
drug use
woman’s “liberation”
hate Nixon
anti-war marches (mostly ‘don’t draft me, bro’ marches)
infiltration of occult memes into popular culture
Lots of young people in the population, so there was fertile ground.
Lots of inequality in the black community, easy to ignite and manipulate.
We still trusted the media, so proliferation was easy.
We had no idea of globalism, so the string-pullers hid.
Abortion was a real problem for all women. A married woman could conspire w/her physician to get a hysterectomy due to ‘tipped uterus’ if she was just a few weeks pregnant and savvy. Wealthy women could fly to NYS or Dominican Republic for legal abortion. Late 60s before The Pill was available. Barrier methods only and spermicide creams available. A few doctors provided illegal abortion, but couldn’t offer any follow-up.
The abortion problem went from ideology to business to racket within a decade or less. Teasing out the reality from the opportunity wasn’t evident at the time.
Personally, I’d call it a confluence of events and situations exploited mightily by many in roles of power and authority.
People with power and wealth always provide a bread and circuses distraction to preserve their power and wealth. The world is always and always will be ruled by Caligulas we are just more aware of it or less aware at various times. If you are fighting against power and wealth you probably should prepare to be crushed without mercy.
FWIW, the Qualudes should have never gone out of production. Society will always find a replacement and the insane crap people take today is ridiculous. The disappearance of qualudes, cheap weed, seconal, and an increase in the drinking age to 21 has just brought us ecstasy, meth, and bath salts lunatics pegged out on federal and Ritalin, and alchholics.
yes
Uhhhhh.....yes?
series? Men made up the whole sexual revolution thing... why pay for the cow when we can get the milk for free.
Yes, we are we lied to.
You are me lie to some more, please.
The women were normal, not like the little pink haired psychotics that I see today.Those women were brought up *before* the revolution.
From the remarks I’ve read, you may be the only person who lived in those times. Ludes dude...
The weed now is off the charts.
Were we laid, too?
(I can’t remember).
“THE 60’S SEXUAL REVOLUTION: We’re We Lied To?”
I don’t know...I never got the email. If it was a lie then i’s still going on.
We’ve been watching reruns of “Mad Men”, set in the ‘60s, and constantly gasp at the way sexual situations are portrayed, especially the stuff that went on in the work place. I guess it could be factual. Much of it is glaring harassment, and half of these bums would be spending their lives in court rooms if they behaved that way now.
When reports of Americans having “end-of-the-world sex” surfaced shortly after the attacks on 9/11/2001, I knew something was wrong. If part of growing up is learning to keep one’s pants on, it shouldn’t have taken venereal diseases and HIV-AIDS to wake people up. Women have gone their own way on what is tantamount to a one-way street, leaving otherwise well-intentioned men all blue-balled as they struggle with their instincts to fulfill their natural-born roles in the propagation of the species. “It’s time”...for the American people to get back to nature and forget all of that “brotherly love” crap. Yep, it’s time alright. Time to start giving it up or quit your whining about sexual freedom.
there are ladies on FR that actually miss that crap, too. “Oh, it’s a COMPLIMENT”
I know it’s a secret these days but women have nipples and breasts have swaggering charm. Not the uniboob foam shelf that walks around these days.
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