| I consider myself the foremost historian
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| | quickly married. Occasionally men found a
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| on life in Greenwich Village in the
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| | mentally disturbed woman who had sex with
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| Fifties and sixties. Many of my younger
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| | the whole neighborhood, but it was
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| years were spent observing and enjoying
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| | difficult to get a date with her. This
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| its night life. After finishing my
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| | was the way things were and it is not
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| factory job at midnight I unwound by
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| | surprising that people got fed up with
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| drinking beer with the out of town
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| | those rules. Greenwich Village became the
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| visitors. They were an interesting bunch
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| | battleground for a more open society
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| of guys and gals. They all came to New
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| | where adults could choose the way they
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| York looking for a new kind of sexual
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| | had sex and with whom.
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| experience it was one that was not
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| | Word soon spread through out the country
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| available in their hometown. They found
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| | that there was a "sexual oasis" in New
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| what they were looking for in Greenwich
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| | York City where free love was available.
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| Village. That crowd was called by the
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| | Sex starved single guys and gals from all
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| writers of that era: "Beatniks", they
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| | over the nation left their families and
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| also were called: "The Beat Generation".
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| | jobs and headed eastward to Greenwich
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| The village in the early fifties was a
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| | Village. And when they met they found
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| low rent neighborhood occupied by
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| | sexual freedom in each other. Most were
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| Italian-American families and college
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| | broke and had to share one room with ten
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| students from nearby New York University.
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| | others. Some lived on only a few cans of
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| The students socialized in Washington
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| | beans a day, but nothing mattered to them
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| Square Park and in the many coffee shops
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| | but having great sex as often as they
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| scattered around the area. It was a quiet
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| | pleased. They were young and had
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| picturesque scene as young people
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| | unlimited sexual energy.
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| studied, relaxed and chatted in coffee
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| | Poets and writers discovered a marketable
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| shops and in the park. What made the area
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| | opportunity in romanticizing the sex life
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| stand out most was that it was an
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| | of the young guys and gals who newly
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| inexpensive place for college students to
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| | arrived in the village. They called
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| spend their time. On the weekends the
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| | them:" Beatniks" or products of the:
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| coffee shops and parks were full of
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| | "Beat Generation", But the truth was
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| hundreds of thousands of young students
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| | simple. They were just ordinary young
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| who wanted to experience its lay back
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| | people who wanted a sexual freebie
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| atmosphere.
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| | without their parents interfering with
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| Most people in the early fifties had very
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| | their personal life.
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| narrow sexual views. It was forbidden for
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| | This sexual paradise came to an end when
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| a woman to have a sexual affair before
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| | the guys and gals realized that they had
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| marriage and if the neighbors found out
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| | other needs that were just as important
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| that she broke the rules, she was called
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| | as sexual ones. They slowly went back to
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| a tramp. If a woman got herself pregnant
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| | their hometowns, families, and jobs. But
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| without a guy willing to marry her it was
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| | it was a learning experience for them and
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| a cause for her to commit suicide. On the
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| | it was all worth it. Greenwich Village
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| other end horny young single men were
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| | today has become gentrified, only the
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| suffering extreme agony with no way to
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| | elite can afford to live there. But
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| relieve themselves. Most were forced to
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| | memories of what once took place still
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| constantly masturbate while others got
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| | remain.
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