For many years, he was content to go his solitary way, and was satisfied with occasional s****l experiences. But during the late sixties, and early seventies, a noticeable change took hold of him. He was shocked by the emergence of the hippie culture, by the revolutionaries, by free and indiscriminate s*x and drug abuse. The values that he had revered as a boy no longer existed. He started to stop in at local bars where he'd engage in heated discussions with other drinkers. He needed an audience to sound off in front of. As a rule, he was laughed at or ridiculed. He even lost a job for starting a fight with a hippie type worker who belonged to the younger generation.
After he lost his job, Martin withdrew and became even more of a recluse. And he began to be obsessed with s*x again. In hi
