"Sexuality is our birthright and must be reclaimed in order for us to be free individuals."

I have been called ‘the most liberated woman in America’, pioneering women’s rights and the sexual revolution of the late 60s and early 70s.

After graduating High School, I moved from Missouri to Los Angeles, California and began working at a male-dominated Fortune 500 company, where I quickly moved up the ranks and became a top national sales leader. I had a natural talent for sales and was earning high five figures by the age of 22. However, after meeting my husband John through work (he was a prospective client), I soon realized that selling insurance was not my true calling in life and that my passions lay elsewhere.

From a shared interest, John and I went on to establish perhaps the most legendary lifestyle experiment of the 1970s: the Sandstone Foundation for Community Systems Research. Founded in 1969, located high up in Los Angeles’s Topanga Canyon across 15 acres, Sandstone Retreat, as it became known, was a rebellious, sexually charged commune and clothing-optional community where sexual freedom and expression were encouraged and applauded. Through Sandstone’s popularity, we became darlings of the media, with newspapers, magazines, television shows and authors clamouring for interviews.

After John’s death in 2013, and since retiring from full-time employment, I have dedicated my life to rescuing and caring for wild exotic cats that were facing death after being evicted from their home for the third time. I now live alone in the Nevada desert. I have published my first book, ‘Free Love and The Sexual Revolution: Finding Yourself by Removing Sexual Boundaries’, in which I share my story of being the co-founder of the Sandstone Retreat for the first time ever.

‘Free Love and The Sexual Revolution’ is available from www.barbarawilliamson.org .

The Amazon link to it is https://www.amazon.com/Free-Love-Sexual.../dp/B00TSEMO6W