Alternative lifestyle
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An alternative lifestyle is a
norm for a given culture. The phrase "alternative lifestyle" is often used pejoratively.[1] Description of a related set of activities as alternative is a defining aspect of certain subcultures.[2]
History
Alternative lifestyles and
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] These women were the first large group of females to practice pre-marital sex, dancing, cursing, and driving in modern America without the ostracism that had occurred in earlier instances.
The American press in the 1970s frequently used the term "alternative lifestyle" as a euphemism for homosexuality out of fear of offending a mass audience. The term was also used to refer to hippies, who were seen as a threat to the social order.[1]
Examples
The following is a non-exhaustive list of activities in the U.S. that have been described as alternative lifestyles:
- A Stanford University cooperative house, Synergy, was founded in 1972 with the theme of "exploring alternative lifestyles".[4]
- Alternative child-rearing, such as home births
- Environmentally-conscious ways of eating, such as veganism, freeganism, or raw foodism
- Living in non-traditional communities, such as tiny house movement
- Traveling subcultures, including
- Countercultural movements and alternative subcultures such as Bohemianism, punk rock, emo, metal music subculture, antiquarian steampunk, hippies, and vampires
- transdermal implants
- clothing optionallifestyles
- Non-normative sexual lifestyles and gender identity-based subcultures, such as BDSM, LGBT culture, cross-dressing, transvestism, polyamory, cruising, swinging, down-low, and certain types of sexual fetishism, roleplays, or paraphilias[5]
- Adherents to alternative Modern Pagans, and New Age communities
- Certain traditional religious minorities, such as anti-technologylifestyle
- Secular anti-technology communities called neo-Luddites
See also
- Alternative culture
- Alternative housing
- Intentional living
- Lebensreform
- Straight edge
- Teetotalism
- Temperance movement
- Underground culture
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-315-46495-4.[page needed]
- ISBN 978-1-317-47729-7.
- ISBN 9781847798961.
- ^ "SYNERGY | Residential Education". resed.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
- ISBN 978-1492775973.
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