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Sandstone (1975)
What had we hoped to achieve through Sandstone?
As the public relations director from 1969 through 1976 and half of the "spokescouple" (with my wife Maggie) we worked to acquaint the world with the Sandstone Experience. In part our brochure read:
"Sandstone Retreat is nestled near the top of a secluded coastal canyon in Southern California's Malibu Mountains. The elegance of Sandstone is enhanced by a spectacular view of the Pacific Coast and distant Catalina Island. The setting offers a relief from city tensions to the relaxing serenity of natural privacy, fresh air and a variety of activities.
The wearing of clothing at Sandstone is always optional. Open expressions of affection and sensuality are also always appropriate when mutual. While neither nudity or sexual sharing are ever required, Sandstone does offer a serene setting where the real worth and dignity of human sexuality may be experienced."
This documentary effort captures only a 2-week snapshot within the seven years that Sandstone was in existence. In some ways it is representative of the facts and in others not.
Unfortunately, the experience filmed was skewed by the intrusive presence of the filming couple and their resident crew of 3 unaccompanied males, plus some odd uninvited drop-ins, such as my aunt and uncle, the pervert with the sex van and a conflict between a newly arrived couple.
In our presentation, we often compared the psychological benefits of well-introduced open sexuality with the well-guided initial psychedelic experience. Both experiences often result in highly euphoric, life changing, long lasting insight.
To be sure, (imdb:) "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice", despite the wardrobe, was by no means a quaint relic of the swinging 60s/70s. Real life realizations of their, and our, entirely rational human impulses occur every day and night in every large city and small town around the world.
The Sexual Revolution, and the realities of polyamory, polyfidelity, the swinging lifestyle and safer sex practices remain alive and well in God-fearing America in the 21st Century.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Not a cop-out...
***SPOILER*** Today, talk of performance-related erectile dysfunction is on every woman's lips, if you'll pardon the expression. Group or open sexuality, for the uninitiated straight first-time "vanilla" male, particularly in the same room/bed with another male, can be a very stressful situation.
Simply put: Despite the appeal and willingness of Carol & Alice, neither Bob or Ted, in their situational anxiety, were able to "get it up". Watch carefully and you'll see the disappointment on the faces of the women.
As the former public relations director and spokesman for the 1970s Sandstone Retreat (imdb: "Sandstone") I often compared the psychological benefits of well-introduced group sex with the well-guided initial psychedelic experience. Both experiences often result in highly euphoric, life changing, long lasting insight.
Finally, B&C&T&A, despite the wardrobe, is by no means a quaint relic of the swinging 60s/70s. Real life realizations of their entirely rational human impulses occur every day and night in every large city and small town around the world.
The Sexual Revolution, and the realities of polyamory, polyfidelity, the swinging lifestyle and safer sex practices remain alive and well in God-fearing America in the 21st Century.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
An anti-religion allegory ...
Rather than alluding to communists as the antagonists in this fine allegory, substitute evangelical born-again Christians and other similar true-believers as the villains and it begins to make sense.
One notices in their stupor that they appear to abandon rationality and probably begin to doubt the facts of Evolution and Plate Techtonics and the Big Bang.
Do they seem to acquire a taste for Creationism and Intelligent Design? Perhaps the Grand Canyon regresses to 6,000 years old and the Dinosaur fossils are planted by God to only appear to be 65 million years old in order to test our faith?
Perhaps. Be very afraid ...