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To: Bigg Red

I also lived through it, and the thing that shocked me was that women still preferred men who were powerful or attractive. There was little that was free about free love. The attractive and powerful men had harems, while the rest of us had the situation well in hand.


18 posted on 11/30/2017 7:10:09 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork; Bigg Red
I also lived through it, and the thing that shocked me was that women still preferred men who were powerful or attractive. There was little that was free about free love. The attractive and powerful men had harems, while the rest of us had the situation well in hand.

Looking at it from the "liberated" women's point of view, free love was not about finding a nice man from church whose parents knew her parents, get married and have children, but rather to have a series of narcissistically orgasmic experiences, living in the moment. Nice guys weren't as thrilling; average guys didn't enhance one's narcissism.

But freedom is never free, even in this sphere. One of the many money quotes from this essay was, "the humiliation and dishonor that comes from being used as a thing for another’s pleasure."

26 posted on 11/30/2017 9:08:07 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Daveinyork
I also lived through it, and the thing that shocked me was that women still preferred men who were powerful or attractive. There was little that was free about free love. The attractive and powerful men had harems, while the rest of us had the situation well in hand.

This is what Trump was saying. "They let you, when you are a rich and powerful man." It amazed him how willing they were in and around Hollywood.

When I was in High School, sophomore year '68, we could only wear dresses to school. All I had ever worn to school were dresses. By the time I graduated in June 1971, we could wear cutoffs, sandals, no bras and we could leave campus at lunch time. It has all happened so fast.

Married my high school sweetheart in '74, still married. We rejected the depravity of our generation and became Christians.

27 posted on 11/30/2017 10:12:47 AM PST by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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