Ch.29

In what ways did the counterculture shape the 1960s and 1970s?

“Counterculture- youth movement led by hippies; promoted drugs and a lack of social restrictions”. ” Boyer, 717". The majority of students used marijuana and minority used mind altering drugs which called LSD. For students who used marijuana consist into two type, the first type consider as a killer and other type thins of marijuana as kind of relaxation. Hippie style was by wearing surplus military clothing, and dyed T-shirts. Also, for the young men sported shaggy beards and long hair.

Musical revolution also noticeable in 1960s which youth was looking to something new like “authentic” as alternative. They tried to express their felling by the songs and they had many subjects such as culture’s drugs, sex, and radicalism. In 1969 there were a big event called “Woodstock Festival” which four hundred thousand came to it. It was not just for music but they were celebrating for the freedom and it shared drugs and sexual partners. After that, festival became a good business since the economy decreased in that period.

The sexual revolution was also in that ear too which they believed since” it good, do it”. Many women in that era were taking pill to avoid pregnancy. Then they established “Roe vs Wade” which give the women right to abortion. Also, it was the start of the gay liberation in the public since they have the equality between the genders. Furthermore, the court threw some of restricting “sexually explicit” which let some magazine include more explicit erotica. Not just magazine but some movies added some scenes of explicit sex.