Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’
Sam Wollaston, Guardian, Tue 24 Apr 2018.
Noa Maxwell talked to the Guardian about his childhood at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s ‘free love’ commune in Poona
Noa was certainly aware of the sex. “You could hear people having orgasmic sex all the time. All night, like mating baboons, gibbons.”
In some ways the independence Noa had has stood him in good stead, he says. “But if you have no boundaries in your life the world is quite scary.” Boundaries – or lack of them – is something that comes up again and again.
Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country in 2018
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