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people's does; my appetite was, from time to time, apparently insatiable and required containing; Films like Tom Jones (1963) (I saw the tv version so it was probably heavily edited)and Darling (1966) depicted perfectly normal people going about their lives and fornicating without either suffering agonies of guilt or being run over by a steamroller. The freeing-up of sexuality from the restraints of tradition and religion was, arguably, greater than for any generation since the days of Ancient Rome. One could argue that this freeing up process began seriously in the 1920s, with the 1960s increasing the pace and each decade since then having its own story, a story told in film after film in its own symbolic way with each film and each decade.
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I do think you're right about the invention of film freeing up sexuality. My time to shine (so to speak), being born in '54 was after '73 (I was raised in a strict home though Dad told dirty jokes constantly) so I caught the end of the hippie movement but remember riots, sit-ins, love-ins and all those 'ins they came up with. I do think they did change the world, not in the huge, in-your-face way they wanted but in subtle, small ways such as the way we discipline children now, and a little bit of equality for women and other things I just can't think of at the moment.
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Hugh Trevor-Roper, famous British historian, once wrote that "History is not merely what happened: it is what happened in the context of what might have happened."
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I agree and just love that quote. MsJ is this in our quote list?
hugs,
Gail
