Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
Being age 55, I grew up in the early 1980's. I remember what young people looked like when I was young and that era of my youth is what I find still attractive. Much of attractiveness has to do with the way people look, wear their hair, dress, talk, act, etc. I'm attracted to the typical 1970's/1980's white young person look and people then from the SF Bay Area in California. High school boys were mostly clean-shaven and girls often wore skirts and dresses then. The fuller permed or layered hair look was common in both sexes. There were no body piercings, tatts or weird hair colors in younger people then. Younger people then had better English and seemed more intelligent in their manner of speech. The San Francisco Bay Area then had high academic standards in public schools in middle-to-rich class white communities of the northern coastal California San Francisco metro area practically in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Sonoma, Santa Clara, Marin and Sonoma counties. The east side of the Bay was Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties and those were comparably lower class and ghetto-like. East Oakland, Hayward, Vallejo and East Palo Alto were slums. I grew up in Woodside California. Stanford University is a stone's throw away and so were mansions of the rich in Menlo Park, CA. Upper middle class white neighborhoods. No ghetto stuff, period. People seemed more natural and human then in general. It is the middle-class people of the pre-1990's in the higher-class white communities of the San Francisco Bay Area that I find most attractive. This is where I was raised, educated and grew up and this is what I've known in my boyhood and younger manhood. The California coastal beach culture of old. The older culture of the San Andreas fault. We baby boomers and early gen-Xers weren't inundated with all this technological gadget stuff. The cool thing to carry around then was a boombox radio and not a smartphone.
Unfortunately in the era of my youth, same-sex relationships were shamed and condemned by mainstream society. For high-school boys to show interest in other young men openly was an absolute no-no in the 1970s/1980s. Men and boys who were scorned or disliked were still often called various F words and other homosexual terms and were deemed UNCOOL by the youth generation and the older generations alike then. There was huge pressure by peers and older people alike for "boys to like girls". Homosexuality and bisexuality were suppressed still during the sexual revolution. It was free love but only free love for heterosexuals. Homosexuals and bisexuals have been in an age of suppression for many centuries. They have not enjoyed true societal liberation since ancient Greece and Rome. The Church has been their largest world-wide suppressors.
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