Free Love...Again

Yeah, I know, it's 2010. Porn is on the downside. U-Porn is on the upside. Craigslist took away its 'erotic' section and most of the singles out there are growing weary of all the internet & speed dating. The majority of our interaction as a society comes in little white cables coming through our walls or from signals floating across space (with the exception of the ones which are supposed to reaching my iPhone... yeah, that's a big spitball at you, AT&T).  We don't interact on a human level nearly as much, and, shit...something's gotta give.

I'm a big fan of the 60's and early 70's. Call me a hippie, a dippie, or whatever you'd like...but it was, as a whole, a better time to be a human.  Movies were not made solely to destroy the weekly box-office and 'sequel' wasn't quite yet a word. Dennis Hopper made a movie where three dudes cruise the country on motorcycles without much of a plot and end up all dying in the end...and it was a hit movie!! Not an indie gem never to be seen.  Love and sex were terms of endearment, not sins of the flesh to be condemned by every Christian, Bush-loving preacher from sea to shining sea.

The nude body, nakedness, and sex were not taboo--they were healthy forms of expression.  People would rejoice in large groups and express their bodies and their love (and their LSD...but that's a whole nother topic).  All in all, it was a better time.  A freer time.  We weren't so PC and absolute hypocrites about everything that relates to the human form.  We are supposedly the greatest nation on earth, yet we have to go to Europe (especially the south of France) to see remnants of this time.  The bastardized term of 'pornography' rose from all of this, the same way 'bootleggers' rose from the time of prohibition.

So, what does one do to get back to that time of 'free love,' where we cared much less about what we revealed and much more about what we were as humans.  Fuck, maybe I'm rambling here...but I think it's about time we took a stand.  I want to bring back 'free love.'  I mean, hell...lets face it, every type of porn imaginable has been made...why not do some 'free love porn?'  In fact, lets just take the nasty little 'porn' tag off it and do some 'free love.'  Spontaneous showings of love and affection...on the street corners, in the parks, on the beaches.  Really, why not?  What's stopping us (besides getting busted for indecent exposure)?

Here's my idea...lets unofficially denote October 1st, 2010 as Free Love Day.  Send me in your ideas of what we could do as Americans to celebrate Free Love Day.  Make love with your special someone in an outdoor location?  Have sex on the roof, then shoot off some fireworks?  Have a Free Love Relay where each naked runner, instead of passing a baton to the next runner, they bone them full of love!!!  Seriously, lets try it folks.  A healthy expression of our bodies and our love on October 1st.  Send me in your ideas and we'll get this holiday on the map!!  Just do it!  Sex in the City!!