GirlChat #593430
"I wasn't around for it, but I've heard that a large reason for the dying of the "free love" movement was the arrival of HIV/AIDs as a serious disease in America- especially when little was known about it."
Far from dead, its still gaining momentum. Even back in the hippie-dippie days there were more expectation of becoming the "main squeeze" or "old-man/old-lady" of a partner. These days casual hookups, booty-calls and "friends with benefits" are a fairly mainstream notion among the young. It may be the side-effect of overloaded helicopter kids coming into a lousy more competitive economy. But relationship-free sex has become a new norm. There were always STDs. Some say that the "Summer of Love" was followed by the "Winter of Crabs." :) Dante |