"In my lifetime, from World War II on, life got freer and freer until herpes,
then AIDS. That was the end, ask any bar owner. Things moved to the right.
"Once this idea that you can die from sex got into people's heads, it became
a weapon in the hands of stiff, erect, martinet father/parent fascists to suppress
sensuality. When you start doing that, society gets rigid, and social life as I knew
it was over, fast. I loved that era, and it's gone. Everything is about infections now.
Anybody under 30 has never known the freedom I knew. They're frightened, they have
no idea about alternative lifestyles.
"Freedom has never been part of the air they breathe. Naturally, I reacted differently to
this fear of freedom, because it is a fear of feeling. I'm not talking about being profligate
with sex and drugs. Fear of freedom is a withholding of love, and it's unyielding."
Jack Nicholson, per DListed
