Straight edge

:For the drawing or cutting tool, see straightedge.

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Straight edge, also known as sXe, is a lifestyle and (counter cultural) subculture, closely associated with punk or hardcore punk music in the United States, which advocates abstinence in relation to tobacco, alcohol and recreational drug use (especially psychoactive and stimulant drug use), and in relation to promiscuous sexual behaviour.

Related Topics:
Lifestyle - Counter cultural - Subculture - Punk - Hardcore punk - Music - United States - Abstinence - Recreational drug use - Psychoactive - Stimulant - Drug - Promiscuous - Sexual behaviour

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Although straight-edgers do not necessarily identify with a particular worldview on social or political issues, many do subscribe to precepts associated with anarchism, vegetarianism, socialism, veganism, environmentalism and the ecology movement.

Related Topics:
Worldview - Precept - Anarchism - Vegetarianism - Socialism - Veganism - Environmentalism - Ecology movement

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The relationship between straight-edge and punk (and hardcore) music is such that a small minority of adherents hold that straight-edge cannot exist separately from the music scene.

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