<p>My father was born in 1912. I was born in 1950. My S was born in 1988. </p>
<p>When I was 20 I was concerned about black outs (drinking) because I was living at college with a female I knew from HS and had that morning-after fear I’d struck her. My father had some advice. He also related (for the first and only time) that he had lived with a girl his age at college in 1929-30. </p>
<p>He said “Son, you young folks did not invent all this, you just want to talk more about it.”</p>
<p>As a historical note, pot, opium, morphine and heroin only began to be criminalized in the US starting in the 1920’s. According to one documentary much of the push to “refrom” through criminalization came from the assertion that many middle/upper middle class women were users along with the politicians of the day.</p>
<p>My mother was born in 1915. She thought that the birth control pill was a step forward for women. We talked about sex on a few occassions and she hinted that I ought to take notice of all the somewhat older “nieces” and “nephews” of the parents of my aged friends who lived with and were supported by the parents of these friends. </p>
<p>I recall that after both parents of one such “niece” died, the niece indicated that they had told her that she was the child of the woman [aunt] who had the child [niece] out of town [the neighbors were told she went away for medical reasons] and then married the man shortly after her return home. FYI–the “uncle” was not her father.</p>
<p>To all you “youths,” YOU did not invent this stuff, you just are more willing to share the pictures. </p>
<p>As an additional aside, I’d love to find pictures of me at 19 at the Pop Festival in Lewisville, TX. I seem to remember dancing in the spray of the water truck hose. Yes, I’ve mentioned some [most] of this to S. To him its “old news.” </p>
<p>Also, S and I went to New Zealand in 2004 and prior to that to the Carribean islands. He’s is very aware that the comfort level with getting naked is cultural. Maybe you youth have started a new movement like Alice’s Restaurant talks about. The “get naked and put it on the Web movement.”</p>
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