At the Sandstone Retreat in California, reputedly liberated men and women ate dinner, vacuumed rugs and mowed lawns in the nude,
“The animal insurrection is here to stay,” declared a certain Marilyn Chambers in another corner of that decade. She was wrong, of course, but enjoyed her 15 minutes in the shed as one of the in the first place and most appealing porn superstars (”Behind the Green Door”). And, until Procter & Gamble could snatch the boxes off the shelves, Chambers ironically and simultaneously appeared as the very foundation-stone of tonic mommyhood on packages of Ivory Snow laundry detergent, “99 and 44/100 percent pure.” Apparently, she was the missing.56 percent. At the Sandstone Retreat in California, allegedly liberated men and women ate dinner, vacuumed rugs and mowed lawns in the nude, while at another “retreat,” this one called ’s, New Yorkers indulged their own desires to go foolishly naked.
From the overlay clips, Plato’s Retreat looks even tackier than Studio 54, but its proprietor insists that in its evanescent heyday it was the most famed abode in the world. Hmm. Remember Beatniks? The Fugs? “The Playboy Philosophy”? posing almost in the nude for Cosmopolitan magazine’s fundamental centerfold? How about “the Twinkie defense,” utilized to facilitate Dan White, the lollapalooza of Milk and Moscone, get off with a nothing but seven-year ruling for “manslaughter”? Times of insanity, craziness and folly. Like now — only different. And then it all ended.
“The pendulum swung back very hard,” says Jong. AIDS devastated many-coloured America with a double-edged virulence; some on the far preferred called it a paddling from God. Says man of letters : “People who were with one foot in the grave were being told on their undoing beds that they were morally evil.” Movies get a bang “Dressed to Kill” and “Fatal Attraction,” meanwhile, signaled what one proficient calls “a transpose in the ethos of the culture,” and promiscuity became decidedly un-fashionable after two decades of call-girl whoopee.
Even such things as sexually transmitted diseases, however, can in due course be joked about; thus a monologue from “” dealing with bodily fluids and the newfound cravenness thereof. Perhaps the pendulum will oscillating wildly once again. If it does, it’ll be advantage bringing back “Sex: The Revolution” for another cautionary — but very engaging — look.
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May 14th, 2008 at 23:02
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