Gratuitous

Syllabic: gra-tu-i-tous

Pronunciation: gruh-too-i-tuhs

Definition:
1.given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
2.being without apparent reason, cause, or justification: a gratuitous insult.
3.Law. given without receiving any return value.

Free love, a trip to back to hippies, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll
The advent of the birth control pill, giving us sexual liberty
The Beatles, Hendrix, the Rolling Stones
Is that really what gave us our identity?

Gratuitous sex was that really something new?
Passion for pleasure surely we could not be the first
To feel the delights, to reach the dizzy heights,
Of sating need, desire, quenching lust’s thirst.

© Jem Farmer 2008, all rights reserved.