They were truly a product of their era. Drug use and casual sex were considered to be largely consequence-free to an amazing number of people in the '70s, especially any of the artistically inclined. The song Ariel by Dean Friedman has, for me, come to represent the absolute apogee of that era. It came out in the spring or early summer of 1977, before STDs began to make the dangers of recreational sex a reality for the typical baby boomer.
I believe that Ariel deserves to be recognized as the last song about that era's carefree attitude toward sex; that all started to change soon afterward, first with herpes and then with AIDS.
Wow. I haven't even thought about that song in over 30 years! 1977 was full of quirky tunes. Remember Alan O'Day and
Undercover Angel?And if you want one that was an amazing appeal to promiscuity, there was Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man."
Telephone Man