I put forward my understanding of this business in course of a review of a Hippie era novel set in Glastonbury, written by the Arthurian expert Geoffrey Ashe.
I identify three reasons (in reverse order): Sex & Drugs & Anti-Christianity:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/review-of-geoffrey-ashe-novel-finger.html
As my mother said back in the sixties when she was asked about 'free love'. "It's not free and it's not love."
ReplyDeleteYour analysis is very similar.