Alternative lifestyle

History

Examples

• Alternative child-rearing, such as homeschooling, coparenting and home births
• Restrictive dieting, such as veganism, vegetarianism, freeganism, or raw foodism
• Living in unusual communities, such as communes, intentional communities, ecovillages, off-the-grid, or the tiny house movement
• Traveling subcultures, including lifestyle travellers, housetrucking, and New Age travelling
• Simple living Bohemianism, Punk rock, Emo, antiquarian steampunk subculture and hippies.
• Body modification, including tattoos, body piercings, eye tattooing, scarification, non-surgical stretching like ears or genital stretching, and transdermal implants
• Cross dressing and transvestism
• Nudism and clothing optional lifestyles
• LGBT sexual orientations
• Non-normative sexual lifestyles, such as BDSM, polyamory, swinging, and certain types of sexual fetishism or paraphilia
• Alternative medicine and natural methods of medical care or herbal remedies as medication
• Adherents to alternative spiritual and religious practices, such as Ordo Templi Orientis, Thelemites, Neo-pagans, Satanists and New Age spiritual communities
• Non-technological or anti-technology lifestyle such as the Amish and the Luddites