Speaking of sexual liberation then and now, I would say this: there is no such thing as sexual liberation these days. When we try and think about sexual liberation today it seems like a very strange concept written in a foreign language; something that is very difficult for a young person to understand.
That time was called the 60s. During the 60s, people called hippies decided to reject the values of mainstream culture. During the s the postwar era people were obsessed with money and creature comforts. Everyone wanted to have 2. In other words, the 50s was a time very much like our own. During the 60s, radical left-wingers hippies came along and demanded that people question the origin of their personal wealth and the origin of wealth in general.
Could it be that the goods and services they took for granted did not rise out of thin air, but instead their manufacture had to do with the exploitation and oppression of people here and in faraway lands? So hippies said that the need for greed and luxury should be replaced with the need for something else.
They said β instead of obsessing over new dresses and new cars β people should seek personal fulfillment through, love and sex, and also through experimenting with mind-expanding drugs like LSD. Remember, it was a very, very different time! Probably the thing that is hardest for many to understand these days is that sexual liberation meant separating sex from love.
In other words in your relationships with others, you might not always start by falling in love, and then express that love through sex. Instead, people might love many people, and for express that love through sex, without being in love. Having sex with many different people without being in love with them β just enjoying our physical bodies and exploring them β could be as fulfilling, in its own way, as falling in love with someone and getting married.
