What would it be like today if there was Lit.com during the 60's?

[privy2u]

I am one of the lucky people who experienced the 60's. It was a fucking blast, but, if the internet and Lit had been around then what differences would there be in our society today?

Personally I think if the internet and Lit had been around our society wouldn't be stuck with it's Puritan morality code as a security blanket. The sexual revolution would still be alive!

What do you think would be different in your, or our, daily lives?

privy

 

[Rick DeVille]

I was there in the 60's as well. Who had time to sit at a computer?

For those of us from that era, the sexual revolution is still here

 

[patient1]

I don't really know

I wasn't sexual in the sixties. I do recall them.

I think globalization put down the sexual revolution , with the introduction of incurable viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Maybe if we had the internet we'd have been able to better
contain & control them.

Then again, we've known where babies come from for 1,000's of years, and they turn up unexpectedly all the time.

In fact there's a guy with a question on the how-to board, hoping to hear that his girlfriend can't get pregnant when he cums on his hand before he fingers her.

So, I really don't know. I'm sure the sex would be better as the result of comparing notes.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Don't think Lit would be all that busy... we would all be too stoned to type or we would have dropped acid on the keyboard and pulled the keyboard apart to get the last drop

 

[Starfish]

Woah! Privy, This trips me out. You were a cop. Did you spend the 60's doing body painting or body cavity searches?
j/k

(I kind of reamed you out over on that 'dumb cop' thread, about your sig line, but I apologise. I hate to jump to conclusions, and although I really didn't, I was borderline with my comments.)



As it pertains to the thread, I think lit would have been partly empty, aside from those who were writers, and readers, because instead of people sitting around talking about things, they were out doing and experiancing things.

 

[Rick DeVille]

As it pertains to the thread, I think lit would have been partly empty, aside from those who were writers, and readers, because instead of people sitting around talking about things, they were out doing and experiancing things.

Yep, agree.

 

[Pokerman]

Ignoring the sexual part of it all...how would Vietnam have been different with the mass communication devices we have today? Would we have gotten out sooner if the 'Net was around?

How would music have been different if we could swap files back then too?

You really could pull any event and say what would be different if this had or hadn't happened. How would world events have changed if JFK hadn't been assassinated, but had served two full terms, through 1968? Would LBJ then have run from 68-72? Again, would we have pulled out of 'Nam earlier? If LBJ was president through '72, there would have been no Watergate (and what would we call all our scandals now, without Watergate to add "GATE" to the end of everthing....?). It's fun to think of how things would be different, but you could go on and on about them too, extrapolating things over and over....

 

[Texan]

as one who was a teenager during the latter half of the '60's, I just wanted to mention that hippies were really a small minority of the population. They were even a minority of the "younger" population. The "sexual revolution" was very real, but it wasn't as wide-spread as our selective memories might recall.

During the 60's, the vast majority of people were just as sexually repressed and traditional as they were a decade earlier.

I think the true sexual revolution took place in the 70's .... (or maybe that was just my own personal sexual revolution )

I think herpes started the fall of the sexual revolution because that was the first disease for which there was no cure. I think AIDs was the nail that finally sealed the coffin of the sexual revolution. IMHO, anyone who thinks we are just as "sexually liberated" now as people were in the 70's, ...... just wasn't there.

 

[Starfish]

Those are excellent points you've made Texan, that I overlooked, seeing that I wasn't born until 73 and didn't live through the time we are referring too.
I know my mother and father were open minded, but they had to hide everything because of the rest of the family being highly conservative.

Not too many people would have come out of the closet with their real interests and fetishes in those times, so maybe a place like lit would have been swarming because of all of the people looking to vent their thoughts and frustration in anonymus way.


It makes you wonder.

 

[privy2u]

Hey Texan I have to agree that we all have our own period of sexual revolution or realization. I grew up an Okie and made my first flight from the nest all the way to the west coast. Trust me, what I found there was far above what the rest of the nation experienced! But still - you are on the money!

And Rick - did we meet in another life? Or, maybe that commune in the hills outside Carpenteria, Ca?

Hi Starfish! No offense taken. Actually I never was a hippie, no body paint or selling flowers on the street corners, I just traveled around on my scooter discovering myself. Hmmmm, Come to think of it, that's what I'm doing again. Funny how things turn out!