Monday Music: Smile Happy

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Gay Sex in the Seventies (from TLA)

Bringing us right back the '70s, Joseph Lovett's superb documentary is a journey worth taking in the era of safe sex. Through vintage footage, interviews and rare photos, the film tracks a lost era where a night out might include the baths, the piers, a sex club and maybe an empty truck for a quickie.

Those who were 'there' often look back on themselves as if they were someone else experiencing that life and time. There was , of course, both a down side and an up side. It gives new meaning to the words 'survivor' and 'boomer.'


The song on the site is War's "Smile Happy", a liberating instrumental the appreciation of which was truly enhanced by walking down the stairs of a bath house in a towel in anticipation of multiple sexual partners [and subsequent multiple showers] 'Tis aptly titled, it is.

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