A few months ago I posted a link to video of a 70′s Encounter Group that lot of you liked. Well, it seems what I posed was just a part of the full 90 minutes film. As I said before, as far as I can tell, this is not “staged” like a reality show or porn made to look amateur; but rather it is a promotional film for Encounter Groups.
For those who are too young to remember, the mid 70′s was the high point of the free love movement. It was after the sexual revolution, but before the right-wing backlash and AIDS. Movies like Deep Throat and Debbie Does Dallas played in theaters to a large mainstream audience. For instance I recall my parents and their friends all went to see Debbie Does Dallas at a theater and had no problem telling their teenage kids they were going.
At the same time that sexual barriers came down, there was the rise of the self-help and self-discovery movement. I bet everyone my age remembers Johnathan Livingston Seagull. So wile middle class professionals (like my parents) were exploring nude Caribbean beaches and nude pool parties, mainstream baby-boomers (i.e. not hippies) were trying out things, like sexual Encounter Groups.
While it was filmed in the 70′s, this film shows how free love at things sex-friendly nudist resorts looks even today. .
LInk https://xhamster.com/videos/intimacy-strangers-1979-10756769Being from this cohort—WHS, Class of '67—from a small, midwestern, college town, and of the peace-marching, acid-dropping persuasion, I'm still surprised that I didn't have any opportunity for this kind of encounter. Only a tiny bit of group nudity (with mocking disapproval from unexpected sources), and sex was between one committed cat and chick. (We really did use those words.)
One historical sexual marker that only goes back to the late eighties and early nineties, but was unique to baby boomers, happened at a Minneapolis drawing co-op. Drawing co-ops are groups of artists who hire models together. Interestingly, though I don't know what it means, the majority of artists are women, and the vast, vast majority of models are as well. Until Covid-19, there were at least half a dozen operating in the Twin Cities. I am very interested in the nude figure, but my drawing headspace is definitely not the same as it is during sex or when looking at porn, and is also different than my nudist headspace. I was active in the scene from '87 to '95 and took a break until '07. In the earlier period, I drew more vulvas. There was nothing special about that, and poses that revealed the model's pussy didn't feature it. The mood was casual, and if the model's knees were apart, it was just because that was the way she was sitting.
Until sometime last winter, I would have said that the younger generation of models always takes pains to be modest. In fact, one of my favorite models once lamented the need to keep her legs together. But half a year ago, I was at a co-op that draws poses several hours long. I had taken my drawing as far as I could, with half an hour remaining. I scooted about ninety degrees around the model and began to draw. I was startled to find her legs apart, and I took the opportunity to do a vulva study.