Talk:Acali

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Regarding the height of the cabin...1.4 meters? A little less than 4.6 feet? The pictures shown of Acali seem to indicate the cabin was a bit taller than that. Maybe if the cabin was only used for sleeping it would be okay, but there would essentially be no way that the crew could stand up and walk around inside of it. We might want to check some other sources before we settle on indicating that the height is 1.4 meters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Couchinsurance (talk • contribs) 04:16, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

The cited source does not give the height, and in the photos it looks tall enough to stand up in, although it's hard to tell. I have modified the text to reflect what the cited source says. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:37, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Basic information to add to this article (which anyone might expect to find here): why exactly it was referred to as the "sex raft." 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:08, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

This is exactly what I was looking for. There seems to be conflicting information as well. When I look at the source for why it was called the "sex raft", the source is titled "Mutiny on the Sex Raft: how a 70s science project descended into violent chaos". Yet, the Wikipedia article itself says "the group remained peaceful". At least one of these sources is wrong then because this information is completely contradictory. Artartartart (talk) 20:32, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Even though the title of the article https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/14/mutiny-on-the-sex-raft-70s-experiment-santiago-genoves refers to "violent chaos", the body of that Guardian article does not really bear that out: there is a little bit of chaos but the title is misleading.

From that article and another Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/02/storyville-the-raft-review-almost-too-deliciously-ludicrous-to-be-true the title would more truthfully read "... fails to descend into violent chaos, much to the disappointment of its organiser". The "mutiny" referred to was the organiser mutinying against the captain he had himself appointed! Those 2 articles are already in the references.

One more article that tells mostly the same story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidalm/2019/06/06/the-raft-tells-of-sex-chaos-and-mutiny-in-a-crazy-1973-social-experiment/ and also says "No one was allowed to bring any reading material aboard the Acali, as Genovés named the raft, so to entertain themselves, the participants would have to resort to singing songs, telling stories and, Genovés hoped, having lots and lots of sex. To ensure this would happen, he selected only people he deemed "sexually attractive."

More about where "sex raft" came from: this article https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/love-island-the-raft-film-documentary-sex-experiment-santiago-genoves-a8591746.html says it was "soon rechristened a “sex raft” by the world’s press". FrankSier (talk) 22:55, 7 August 2023 (UTC)