Free Love
Beginning in San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a new culture of "free love" emerged, with thousands of young people becoming "hippies" who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex as part of ordinary life. This is part of a counterculture that exists to the present. By the 1970s, it was acceptable for colleges to allow co-ed housing.
Free love continued in different forms throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s, but its more assertive manifestations ended abruptly (or disappeared from public view) in the mid-1980s when the public first became aware of AIDS, a deadly sexually transmitted disease.
Read more about this topic: Sexual Revolution
Famous quotes containing the words free and/or love:
“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)