'Free Love,' Etc. (was Re: heterosexism vs homophobia)

[Frances Bolton]

Hey Charles--
>
>Charles: Yea, I didn't mean to say that those posts were comprehensive
discussions. I was speaking more specifically of the 60's sex lib movement,
and of the dimensions that don't seem to be discussed anymore. It's like
they have been silenced or tabooed. People don't even talk about it. It is
an amazing example of sexual repression and thorough counterrevolt.
>
I think the problem with the 60s sex lib movement was that it became the
70s. Meaning, it almost immediately became surburbanized, controlled,
commodified, about consumption rather than liberation. Another reason for
its repression is of course the AIDS outbreak. But returning to the first, I
wonder if there was some flaw in what was going on in the 60s that left the
movement so open to being appropriated and sanitized by the swinging
bourgeois.
frances