If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
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It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
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