It’s hard to ignore that there’s a class of cranky commentariat that was upset that kids changed norms and had too much sex and then became upset that kids changed norms and had not enough sex and it’s becoming to look kind of unsettlingly preoccupied
In all seriousness, if the kids are having less sex it's more likely because they have a radically different understanding of consent than we did — and that's GREAT.
There seems like a surprisingly large class of people that think that teen sex should be exclusively done in the back of a large sedan or station wagon and not necessarily with consent
And I mean I owned a car that you could father and raise a family in but let's be honest a bed is still better
The Pill was around since the early 60s, though condoms tended to be behind drugstore counters until the 80s when herpes and AIDS made them much more accessible.
It was a lot of what catalyzed the Sexual Revolution, in addition to just the boomer generation being in their 20s and horny.
