While a tent doesn't usually top the list of places we'd most want to get down and dirty, it hasn't stopped patrons of music festivals beginning at Woodstock in 1969. Since this time, sex has become nearly as important to the music festival mentality as the music itself. Frequent use of drugs such as acid and ecstasy, which leave users more uninhibited and vulnerable to suggestion have resulted in skyrocketing rates of casual sex and inherently STD's amongst those in attendance. While we've accepted both casual sex and drug use as inevitable within our society there remains the feeling that something should be done to prevent rampant, dangerous sexual behavior.
Cars and vans arriving at Bonaroo are checked for the presence of drugs and yet there appears to nonetheless be no shortage of psychedelics once the first guitar is strummed. The question is, has the mantra of sex, drugs and rock and roll been taken out of context for many of today's concert goers? Is there too much pressure to live up to a movement that at it's time was an organic, social response?
Cars and vans arriving at Bonaroo are checked for the presence of drugs and yet there appears to nonetheless be no shortage of psychedelics once the first guitar is strummed. The question is, has the mantra of sex, drugs and rock and roll been taken out of context for many of today's concert goers? Is there too much pressure to live up to a movement that at it's time was an organic, social response?
mandy
You wrote a nice article, and it is very true; sex has lost most
of its meaning and it is actually in large part, a direct result
of the secual revolution. Anyway, I wont get into that, but
AWESOME article!!!
GBY ~Amy