If there was an era you could relive, when do you think it would be? For me, it would definitely be the 1970s. I was in my sexual prime then, my late twenties and early thirties.
It was a time of great promiscuity, both for the country and for me personally. You could have a seat in a bar and be served by a totally naked woman. Well, almost naked. She wore her shoes and a smile, but nothing else.
Massage parlors proliferated. You could get a semi-decent massage for twenty bucks and a hand job for a five-dollar tip. For another twenty, you got laid.
In San Francisco, there was a theater that changed its entertainment from strippers to porno films. Between movie showings there was a live sex show. That's right. A couple came out on the stage and fucked. Naturally that only lasted a few months before the local blue noses put a stop to the paid couples. The theater kept the movies and hired strippers again. After they were down to their shoes and smiles, a member of the all-male audience was invited to come up and fuck them. Usually it was a boyfriend or husband who had been planted in the crowd who came up to do the horizontal dance. That way prostitution charges were avoided. Like all things that challenge the mores of the time, that, too, was eventually stopped.
Then there were the wife-swapping groups, or swingers. Orgies were held every weekend in private homes purposely set up for swing parties. The bedroom floors had wall-to-wall mattresses. The master bedroom was the group room. The rule was couples and single women only, but a single man could hire a 'date,' also known as a ticket, for fifty to seventy-five dollars. This kept the gender balance in line, otherwise there would be too many men and not enough women for what is essentially a couples activity. As long as the guy screwed any woman other than his ticket, it wasn't prostitution. I went to a couple parties; I'd guess there were more tickets than wives at them.
There's not much left from those heady days of the sexual revolution. Nudity couldn't be banned, but alcohol served by naked girls could be. Can you imagine a coffee shop or a juice bar with nude waitresses? There are still a few dirty movie theaters around, but the ready availability of rental movies, and then the Internet, killed the adult theaters. The old Hookers' Ball folded at the end of the decade. There were some attempts to revive it, but the glamour is gone.