This article deals with the everyday life of the communes in West Germany, which came into existence 1967 and played an important role in the German student movement of the 1960s. However, their names and figures were well known, not because they led big demonstrations and protests at that time, but because they represented the ``sex wave``, which penetrated into the masses from the first half of the 1960s. The communes with the slogan "the personal is political" was originally intended as counter-model against the small conservative middle-class family, which supported the conservative political milieu. By analysing the everyday life of the commune members, we come to the conclusion that the activities of the communes didn`t concentrate on the private things of their members and could not help be involved with the political issues. In their political activities the traditional methods were not used, but new staged satire and provocation were invented. But those were not strong enough. In the long run, they resorted to the body politics, waging to give wide publicity to the photograph of the communards` naked behinds against a wall. The communes, finally dissolved 1969, had strong impact on the political movements and the culture not by politicizing the personal, but by appealing to body politics and mobilizing the masses who already accepted the sexual revolution.