Coming from a New England Puritan background and never having success in High School with girls,, I was amazed at my prowess with the locals in Ca. Later I realized they thought I was a poor soul who was forced into Uncle Sam's war although I was totally for our effort in Nam. I went along with the illusion's they had and made the most of it and did quite well with the lady's. Never felt guilt till years later when I got serious about marriage. Never told my wife and never cheated on her during 40 yr’s of marriage.
I was a tin-can sailor, home ported out of Newport, R.I. from 1967-1970. There were three girls' colleges in Newport, and as you remember, considering time and place, they were all liberal hippie chicks.
There were local college boys available to date, but when the girls went out to party, they'd go down to the waterfront bars on Thames Street where the sailors and marines hung out.
The girls were anti-war, we were Viet vets, but they were still women. When we weren't deployed, my shipmates and I never lacked for attention from the "hippie chicks". I guess we were just more fun than the "more respectable" civilian college age males.