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And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.
They are non-conformists on principle.
When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.
It is sex that obsesses them, sex that is at the basis of their aesthetic creed.
What they discuss with dialectical seriousness is the degree to which sex can inspire the Muse.
Monogamy is the vice from which the abjectly fearful middle class continue to suffer, whereas the beatnik has the courage to break out of that prison of respectability.
One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.
If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??
`` Most often '', she says, `` it's the monogamous relationship that is dishonest ''.
There is nothing holy in wedlock.
This girl soon drops the bourgeois pyschiatrist who disapproves of her life.
She finds married life stifling and every prolonged sex relationship unbearably monotonous.
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