sexual revolution

While looking around the internet for something interesting to link to for the sexual revolution, I noticed a common thread amongst all the information I read about it. Most sources noted that during the 1960s people were the most free with sex and in general. Personally, when I think of the 1960s, I think of hippies in Golden Gate Park completely happy, which was caused by more than just sexual freedom, but still. Freud himself linked most of our psychological issues to sex and sexual repression. However, if we could be truly free in our sexual desires without any societal influences, it would seem that we could be truly free and happy, based on what Freud preached. However, society will always be around, and for the most part, society likes to keep a tight lid on sex, which can be seen by the conservative response to the sexual revolution. What I don't understand, though, is if everyone has sexual desires (including both men and women), why do certain groups insist on suppressing the idea of free sex when it benefits everyone and leads to happiness and freedom? Why, as a society, do we always feel the tendency to suppress ourselves? I know we have made huge leaps in sexual freedom since before the 1960s, and the sexual revolution did certainly help with this, but we are no where as free, as a society, as the hippies of the 1960s were. Because of this, we have people like Senator Larry Craig being ashamed of who they really are and what they really desire because, as a society in general, are not completely accepting of homosexuality. Many homosexuals feel the need to hide and suppress their desires in order to "fit in". While we may have made leaps what with acknowledging feminine sexuality, we still have a long ways to go, as a society. As Jefferson Airplane, a popular group at the time of the sexual revolution, asks, "Don't you want somebody to love?"