Facts About Intimacy In 1960s America [9NZL1fiaWE1]

Facts About Intimacy In 1960s America [9NZL1fiaWE1]

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common stereotype about hippie love life issues was that hippies were mostly promiscuous characters. They liked to gather for wild orgies, seduce innocent teenagers, and enjoy all kinds of sexual perversions. The hippies emerged as part of an existing sexual expansion that criticized existing conservative views on sex. The focus is increasingly on the fun aspects of sex. The publication of numerous studies in books changed the previous perception of love, which no longer implies marriage but everyone can sleep with whoever they want and whenever they want without obligation or feeling ashamed. They inherited countercultural sexual practices from the Beat Generation that encouraged them to openly and unabashedly practice and talk about sex. One of the popular slogans was "if it's good then do it," and they took it too literally. As a result, promiscuous behavior and therefore sexually transmitted diseases, which were the introduction to AIDS during the '80s, occurred.