Abstract: Suburbia would prove to be the terminus of Frank Zappa's satirical project. In the final analysis, the ringmaster of freaks, a mother to the North American counterculture and champion of outsiders would find himself outnumbered and outmanoeuvred by the rising tide of 'plastic people'. Suburban culture requires enticements, the dividends of emancipation, to finesse the influx of the upwardly mobile from the city centres. So the suburbs become the loci of the very institutionalisation of the freedoms of the late 1960s. Zappa's suburban sexuality is not furtive or discrete, and not class-ridden, since, only a decade after the radical sexual agendas of the Summer of Love, sex itself has been edged into commercial domains. Sex has been feminised for Zappa, in the senses of becoming the preoccupation or pastime of the sexually aggressive female, 'pace' feminism, and of the 'femininity' of the character of the passive male homosexual, receiver rather than giver, who now looms large.