Alternative lifestyle
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An alternative lifestyle is a lifestyle perceived to be outside the cultural norm. The phrase may be used by someone to describe their own lifestyle or someone else's. Description of a related set of activities as an alternative lifestyle is a defining aspect of certain subcultures.[1] It is often associated with living quite the opposite of the norm, or unconventional.
History[]
Alternative lifestyles and subcultures originated in the 1920s with the "flapper" movement. It is during these times when women cut their hair and skirts short (as a symbol of freedom from oppression and the old way of living).[2][3][better source needed] Women in the flapper age were the first large group of females to practice pre-marital sex, dancing, cursing, and driving in modern America without scandal following them.[citation needed]
Examples[]
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The following are examples of alternative lifestyles.[better source needed] This is by no means an exhaustive list.
- Alternative child-rearing, such as homeschooling, coparenting and home births
- Restrictive dieting, such as veganism, vegetarianism, freeganism, or raw foodism
- Living in unusual communities, such as communes, intentional communities, ecovillages, off-the-grid, or the tiny house movement
- Traveling subcultures, including lifestyle travellers, housetrucking, and New Age travelling
- Simple living Bohemianism, Punk rock, Emo, antiquarian steampunk subculture and hippies.
- Body modification, including tattoos, body piercings, eye tattooing, scarification, non-surgical stretching like ears or genital stretching, and transdermal implants
- Cross dressing and transvestism
- Nudism and clothing optional lifestyles
- Non-normative sexual lifestyles, such as BDSM, polyamory, swinging, and certain types of sexual fetishism or paraphilia[4]
- Alternative medicine and natural methods of medical care or herbal remedies as medication
- Adherents to alternative spiritual and religious practices, such as Ordo Templi Orientis, Thelemites, Neo-pagans, Satanists and New Age spiritual communities
- Certain religious minorities, such as the Amish who pursue a non-technological or anti-technology lifestyle
- Secular anti-technology community called Luddites
- Special interest groups into collecting
- Some social and religious conservatives in the United States argue that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have chosen an alternative or "homosexual lifestyle".[5] The term "gay lifestyle" may also be used disparagingly for a series of stereotyped behaviours.[6][page needed]
Initiatives[]
A Stanford University cooperative house, Synergy, was founded in 1972 with the theme of "exploring alternative lifestyles."[7]
See also[]
- Alternative culture
- Alternative housing
- Bohemianism
- Intentional community
- Intentional living
- Lebensreform
- Simple living
- Straight Edge
- Subculture
- Teetotalism
- Temperance movement
- Tiny home movement
- Underground culture
References[]
- ^ Misiroglu, Gina (2015-03-26). American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History. Routledge. pp. xxxvi–xxxvii. ISBN 978-1-317-47729-7.
- ^ O’Rourke, Ryan (2020-11-17). "Rights group raises fears 'alternative lifestyle' women on garda watchlist". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ Bland, Lucy (2013-09-30). Modern women on trial: Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781847798961.
- ^ Makai, Michael (September 2013). Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook. Createspace. ISBN 978-1492775973.
- ^ LeVay, Simon (2017). Gay, Straight, and the Reason why: The Science of Sexual Orientation. Oxford University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-19-029737-4.
- ^ Crooks, Robert L.; Baur, Karla (2010-01-01). Our Sexuality. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-495-81294-4.
- ^ "SYNERGY | Residential Education". resed.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
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