Experimenting with communal living (1970s)
1975
Experimenting with communal living (1970s)
“There were a lot of
experiments going on. I went to a [Women’s Lib conference] in Manchester
and stayed in an all woman house and they were really trying hard to
come to terms with a different way of living, so they all looked after
all the children, it was outrageous really. It was the first time ever
in my life I’d seen anybody go to the lavatory without shutting the
door. There were still edges on me that were being knocked off all the
time. Communal living experiments went on all over the place and
straight women tried it as well but it didn’t work with them because
they got jealous of one another’s blokes. The blokes must have been
besides themselves with joy, ‘I’ve had to sleep with her and then sleep
with her’, they got a lot of licence, I never thought the women got
much out of that but they may have.”
Contributed by: Jean Turley, 72