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This is a very good point -- and as wild and rambunctious as the twenties were supposed to have been in the back seats of every available Ford, there's reason to believe there was even more of it going on in the thirties and forties: the Depression, again, was an enormous catalyst for such behavior, since many young people despaired of being able to afford to marry. Tourist camps outside town did a thriving business in these years with anonymous couples named "Smith." Ditto for the war era -- there was plenty of "please give me something to remember you by" going on.
The difference, at least from my perspective, is that such behavior wasn't as -- politicized, for want of a better term, as it became later on. It happened, mature adults of the world were aware that it happened, and it was just one of those things, but it wasn't waved like a flag of cultural liberation the way it was from the sixties onward. To my way of looking at it, it's that HEY LOOK AT US WE"RE HAVIN SEXXXXXX attitude that points in a direct line to the sleazy raunch culture of today, a culture that many women, not just sour-faced old prudes, understandably find offensive and demeaning. My own view? Do what you gotta do, but please, quit carrying on like it makes you daring, unique, or special. Because it doesn't.
Seriously. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
I do believe the minority has take over the majority though.
Like I stated once upon a time there have always since Adam and Eve been bad and good men and bad and good women. The problem is now people have such difference of opinions of these terms.
No absolutes seems to be the norm but I do believe a backlash is coming.
My mother told me during the WW11 when the men were away military wives were having illicit carrying ons on the steps of buildings in the 1940s.
The stats do speak for themselves though and are easily found on the net as to the breakdown in traditional mores and family structure. Surely someone took sociology classes.
As far as teaching an old dog new tricks I have found that once people have children the majority fall back on how they were raised mostly.
I know as I was one of them.
This conservative used to be way the opposite when I was a teen. I thought my parents were the squarest people on the earth.
After watching my extended huge families daily soap operas I swung back.
We are what we are due to our experiences.