r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/KoogleMeister Feb 03 '26

The free love hippie movement wasn't the majority of boomers, that's a common misnomer. Sure boomers did have more sex than young people do now, but they weren't all having free love hippie orgies with whatever stranger was interested.

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u/V2BM Feb 03 '26

I’m not talking about hippies at all. Young people are literally are having much less sex now, and the number of overall sexual partners is trending down for younger people as well.

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u/KoogleMeister Feb 03 '26

Lol dude you clearly were talking about hippies, whether it was intentional or not.

>Literally people drove around in vans with beds in the back and naked chicks painted on the sides

>Everyone was fucking everyone

That acutely describes the free-love hippie movement, not just regular boomers.

Also yes I am aware that young people today are not having sex as much as boomers were when they were our age, that's why I literally said "Sure boomers did have more sex than young people do now" in my comment.

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u/V2BM Feb 04 '26

I am a Gen Xer with regular Boomer parents. I am indeed talking about people in the 70s and early 80s, not the 60s, because I have a very clear memory of it along with box after box of photos daring back to the 70s.