ABSTRACT
The orthodoxy was that punks hated hippies, and that the era of sexual permissiveness, ‘sexual liberation’ had been a big con, just a way of getting women into bed more easily. Punks objected to what they saw as hippie idealism and naiveté, the ‘grow your own hi h’ approach that failed to take account of the rigours of late twentieth-century urban life. Before the acid house boom of the late 80s and the second ‘summer of love’, it was presupposed that swinging 60s ideals had collapsed in the face of growing cynicism and materialism.
