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bemildred

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9. I could tell you stories.
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:46 AM
Apr 2012

To be fair, the exploitatilon of jailbait was not something the hippies invented or were even particularly about. That sort of thing was really big and bragged about more in the music world. My first wife told me about the older male friends of her Dad who took advantage of her and thought they were doing her a favor, and I was hit on a few times too.

In the historical context, it was the hippies and radicals that valorized the feminists and sexual equality, but there were a lot of people of both genders at the time just there to party.

It was only after the Raygun revolution that sexual mores changed in the direction of where we are now, and I give a lot of credit for that to the success of the 1st generation feminists.

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