As the sexual revolution locked limbs with the exploration of recreational drug use, psychedelic sex was born. While the grooviest danced naked through the woods, designers of naughty men’s mags tried their hardest to turn people on by visually recreating the wonders of LSD on paper. Soon enough the hottest hippies joined in, unsurprisingly into the idea of getting paid to get naked. Swirling colours and mind-bending love-ins ensued as they let it all hang out in the name of art, peace and free love. At its height, psychedelic sex covered posters, tabloids, comics and newsstands, but the Californian men’s glossies were without a doubt the most far out. In a shiny new hardback by Taschen, their ‘Sexy Book editor’ Dian Hanson compiles the best sex of the sixties and seventies especially for you. Peace out and take a super sexy trip with i-D…
Published by TASCHEN, The Psychedelic Sex Book will be available from March 2015.
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