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:
“Many lovers have been divorced
By having what is free enforced.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“If with light head erect I sing,
Though all the muses lend their force,
From my poor love of anything,
The verse is weak and shallow as its source.
But if with bended neck I grope,
Listening behind me for my wit,
With faith superior to hope,
More anxious to keep back than forward it,”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)