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Sandstone Retreat, officially the Sandstone Foundation for Community Systems Research, was a clothing-optional, open sexuality resort for swingers located at Sandstone Ranch, a 15-acre (6.1 ha) estate in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking Malibu and the Pacific Ocean.
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Barbara Williamson has built multiple sanctuaries around her wild desires. She and her husband created perhaps the most legendary (and notorious) of the 1970s lifestyle experiments, the nexus of primal behavior and bourgeois America: the Sandstone Foundation for Community Systems Research. Founded in 1969, hidden high up in Los Angeles’s Topanga Ca...
In 1968, John sold his share in his corporation, and he and Barbara used that money (over $1 million today) as the down payment for their “perfect civilization,” their New Sexual Utopia. They soon found the ideal property: 15 secluded acres way up a winding dirt road in Topanga Canyon, close to Malibu and just far enough from the city. (The Monkees...
Or not. In 1980, Talese published his book, Thy Neighbor’s Wife,with Sandstone as its centerpiece, and it became an instant bestseller (it earned $4 million before publication). But by that point, the place had been shuttered for half a decade. Attracting members to the radical commune had always been a challenge—you were required to register under...
More than writing the next installment in the saga of Sex in America—which apparently would require the author to repeatedly take her clothes off—right now I’m curious about a narrower question: What happens after founding a radical, nudist, group-sex commune in the culture-shifting ’70s? When your life-transformative experimental utopia comes to a...
All of this brings us back to the 60-pound Siberian lynx. Over the next 10 years, Barbara, then in her 50s, worked to make their retirement possible. She and John wanted to leave California, with its noise and trendiness and materialism, and buy a plot of land where they wouldn’t have to worry about their finances again. And so they headed to Fallo...
In her kitchen in Fallon, Barbara places a kettle on the range while Peggy Sue grows increasingly impatient with me. Barbara asks me to choose from the boxes of tea in the open cupboard—“Lemon ginger? Green? Chamomile?”—as the lynx has rounded the corner from the living room and is now trailing me from one counter to the next. She is making a sound...
Sandstone Retreat was a nudist community that promoted personal freedom through open marriage and group-sex parties in Los Angeles. Founded by Barbara Williamson and her husband John, it became a cultural icon of the Sexual Revolution and attracted thousands of members and visitors.
about the book. One of the Sexual Revolution pioneers, Barbara Williamson, shares her story for the first time ever as cofounder of the highly successful and controversial Sandstone Retreat in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
4 de mai. de 2013 · John and Barbara Williamson founded Sandstone Retreat on 15 acres near Los Angeles. The goal, they said, was to understand society, and set it free. Photographs, via Sandstone Foundation. “We...
Description. John and Barbara Williamson opened Sandstone Retreat, a nudist and free-love commune, off Saddle Peak Rd., in 1969. The Williamson were middle-class professionals who felt constrained by the traditional view of marriage and monogamy.
Em meio a essa paisagem sobrevive a memória do Sandstone Retreat, um sítio que conheceu auge e decadência na década de 1970, quando era frequentado por praticantes do sexo livre. Sandstone Peak já foi visitado por ilustres como Gay Talese. Foto: IvyMike/ Creative Commons / Divulgação. » Veja mais fotos. » vc repórter: mande fotos e notícias.
Title: Sandstone Retreat records, circa 1968-1981. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Collection Number: 7834. Abstract: Records of running the social and business life at Sandstone, especially during its peak years 1970-1972, including original drafts of John Williamson's papers and presentations, a folder of his research ...
