[debeguiled]

(08-16-2016 12:18 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

I'm old enough to remember when the media first reported about AIDS. If you all think the media is hysterical about Trump now, you should have seen them about AIDS then. It was going to EXPLODE into the straight community! No no was safe!! It's not just gays!! OMG!!!

There were mainstream media sources reporting you could get if from mosquitoes.

[Sherman]

(08-16-2016 12:18 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

(08-14-2016 01:21 PM)corsega Wrote:  

(08-13-2016 11:49 PM)RatInTheWoods Wrote:  

Never mind the 70s

Imagine all the sweet, free pussy that was free lovin in the 60s????

Born too late :-(

I doubt there was more "free pussy" available in the 60s than there is now. Remember that many women were still quite conservative back then, waiting for a provider to lock down before opening the legs.

The free love thing was more about the shifting attitude towards sex than any sort of hedonistic paradise.

(This is all conjecture, I don't have any statistics to back it up, but if anyone finds any, let me know).

Good call, though.

I've written articles related to this, and from what people have told me, the wild years started around Woodstock (1969) and ended when AIDS entered the public consciousness (1982-83).

I'm old enough to remember when the media first reported about AIDS. If you all think the media is hysterical about Trump now, you should have seen them about AIDS then. It was going to EXPLODE into the straight community! No no was safe!! It's not just gays!! OMG!!!

Of course, none of that was true. I once compiled images of a bunch of hysterical anti-AIDS magazine covers from the '80s to make this point. I can't find my old links this second, but here are two good ones:

Actually, it was the Herpes hysteria that totally killed what was left of the 60s sexual revolution a few years earlier than AIDS.

[Scorpio Rising]

(08-16-2016 12:18 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

(08-14-2016 01:21 PM)corsega Wrote:  

(08-13-2016 11:49 PM)RatInTheWoods Wrote:  

Never mind the 70s

Imagine all the sweet, free pussy that was free lovin in the 60s????

Born too late :-(

I doubt there was more "free pussy" available in the 60s than there is now. Remember that many women were still quite conservative back then, waiting for a provider to lock down before opening the legs.

The free love thing was more about the shifting attitude towards sex than any sort of hedonistic paradise.

(This is all conjecture, I don't have any statistics to back it up, but if anyone finds any, let me know).

Good call, though.

I've written articles related to this, and from what people have told me, the wild years started around Woodstock (1969) and ended when AIDS entered the public consciousness (1982-83).

I'm old enough to remember when the media first reported about AIDS. If you all think the media is hysterical about Trump now, you should have seen them about AIDS then. It was going to EXPLODE into the straight community! No no was safe!! It's not just gays!! OMG!!!

Of course, none of that was true. I once compiled images of a bunch of hysterical anti-AIDS magazine covers from the '80s to make this point. I can't find my old links this second, but here are two good ones:

I would definitely agree with this assessment. The AIDS scare put a damper on things and yes the media was totally hysterical about it and made the most draconian predictions. It was not politically correct even then to report accurately on the scope and nature of the epidemic.

[kikuyu1]

(08-13-2016 10:44 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

I was a little kid then, so no stories. But even as a young 'un, I knew a babe when I saw one, and this is probably the standard by which I came to judge all women. Extra points if y'all know who it is. (Hint: She was hotter than "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!")

You do know that's a genuinely flat ass,right? Please tell me what makes her hot;I just want to understand.

[iknowexactly]

a friend of mine told me that in the 1970s....

...at universities there was very high quality pure LSD, and girls weren't angry at men, and on a sunny weekend day you could get some of the stuff, go with some cheerful and non-resentful eighteen year olds to a state park with a river running over rocks on a warm spring or fall day and just all wander around naked together in primeval bliss, stepping together through the ankle deep, cool, gently-running water, and everything looked like melted candy in the sun, and one felt the flowing eternal unity of the universe....

If someone asked about Game, one would think-
Game? You mean the eternal endless interplay of dark/light, yin/yang, phenomenon and their disintegration that comprises the universe? Oh, THAT game.

That game is cool. And once you've seen the melted candy rocks, you never have to quite believe they're just rocks again, and once you see the sweet ethereal eighteen year olds gambol across the fields of candy, you know you never have to really believe they're demonic. Unless you decide to.

Game as a technique to overcome some presumed mistrust and emnity between men and women? Sounds like some Orwellian nightmare from far into the future.

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I'm sorry you missed this.

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Of course, I would never do anything reckless like that. Brain cells and career first. A penny saved is a penny earned.

[puckerman]

I was born in 1971. Sometimes it seems like so long ago. I wasn't dating then, but I still remember how things were.

People didn't have cell phones or even answering machines. Most houses had one phone, possibly two. If you called someone and they didn't answer, you just called later. If the phone rang, people answered it! A long-distance phone call was a big deal back then, and that might be in a town only 30 miles away. My grandmother actually had a party line!

If you were an adult in your 20's in the 1970's, you grew up in a house that had one television and had a mom staying at home. Your parents were probably still together. There's a good chance that you had to share a bedroom with a sibling. You had a parent and/or at least one uncle who fought in World War Two and had clear memories of the Depression.

Long-distance relationships were probably few and far between. If they did exist, they involved snail-mail or people who had lots of money. A man could ask a woman in his place of work for a date. Many women didn't move out of their parents house until they were married. Unmarried men and unmarried women did not share houses or apartments unless they were siblings.

The closest thing to Internet porn in the 1970's was HBO on your television. That wasn't much. I was one of the few kids who lived in town who didn't have HBO at home. Kids in the country watched television from an antenna outside their house. Of course, most families still watched television together.

The biggest change since that time is that people just didn't think about sexually-transmitted diseases. Women could go on the pill, and that was the biggest worry with sex out of wedlock. AIDS entered the public consciousness in 1985 when actor Rock Hudson contracted the disease.