Dave Pollard: “I remember during the 1970s when it was possible, and acceptable, to pick up (or just as often, be picked up by) a new member of the opposite sex (or same sex if you were so inclined) every day, and go home for sex just for fun. It was easy, there was no wooing or 'work' involved, there were no expectations, and it was pure pleasure. Women learned an enormous amount about what they, and what men, enjoyed sexually by sheer variety of experience, and they told you exactly what they wanted -- or they took the initiative and showed you. And we learned a lot this way. We became competent in the selection and use of sex toys, simply by practice, delightful trial and error. There was no pressure, there were no rituals. It was play.”
I don't care much for his writing on the environment (he'll admit to being an alarmist, but even so, he's too alarmist), but his writing on business practices (especially his belief that people should be doing what they love with the people they love, that businesses should be non-hierarchical and collaborative, and ideally small in size), as well as his writing on love and relationships (that we need more, much more, love and that addiction to love is one of the few addictions worth feeding) is right on. He approvingly cites James Prescott's remarkable article "Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" and argues for a return to the seventies, when love and sex were free and fun, far more free and far more fun than today.
