2. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS FREE SPIRIT SEX EXPERIMENTATION DRUGS PEACE

3. “Being a hippy is about free spirit, free love and sex, experimentation, rejection of the materialistic, love of the earth and environment, love for your brother and care for fellow man unselfishly.”

4. WHERE DID HIPPIES ORGINATE FROM? In America in the mid 1960s the hippie movement began. The term “hippie” was used to describe the new kind of American rebel, who were passionate, spontaneous and free. Their origins came from the Bohemians of the early 1900s and the Beat Generation of the 1950s. Hippies defined themselves as opponents of the dominant culture, a stiff, tight lipped society.

5. SEX : The counterculture of hippies also questioned sexual morality and proposed many different models: extended sexual families, sex orgies, sex-therapy groups, acceptance of homosexuality, and most important of all, a positive, joyful delebration of sexuality, as opposed to the uptight morality of the previous generation. DRUGS : Another important aspect of the Hippie movement was the drugs, mainly marijuana, LSD, and ecstasy. LSD, or Acid, was still legal at the beginning of the Hippie movement, and many Hippies and rock bands engaged in it. Though it was legal use was still kept a secret.

6. CLOTHES: Instead of conforming to the uptight dominance of society, they instead wore their hair long, dressed in jeans, sandals and loose fitting dresses. MUSIC: The hippie scene also changed the sound of music. The 60s transformed pop music into rock music, from entertainment to art. Rock groups, generally speaking, returned to the blues or rhythm and blues for inspiration