I'm not even sure that much is really true. At least not to the extend you might think. They were probably a lot more open about it with their peers than they were with you. Just like the people here probably wouldn't be as open about it with their children as they are here.
That’s all I think about when people nag me and my husband about when we’re having kids and how we need to hurry up. Like damn, do y’all want our raw doggin schedule?
I remember a friend telling me she was trying for another kid.
I laughed and replied, "polite way to tell me you're getting creampied every night"
Luckily she saw the funny side
This doesn't really hold up as sex positivity and openness has shifted significantly in recent decades. Yes, people are more open about it with their peers than cross-generationally, however, at the societal level, it is absolutely objectively true that current generations are more open than previous ones (irrespective of current rates of sex by generation).
I think it's something that fluctuates naturally over generations. The 50s were buttoned up, 60s were very sex positive and more open, 70s/80s a lot of places drifted more conservative again. We've probably trended more open since the Victorian era but it's not linear.
Man, every time I read threads like this I'm like... y'all need some fuckin history. Read some of the horny shit the classical Greeks or Han-era Chinese were writing, lmao. It would make the raunchiest smut writer blush even today.
I was watching an entirely unrelated video on ancient Egypt and there was a question along the lines of their attitudes on sex. Apparently and unsurprisingly, they were very open about it and enjoyed it often. According to the researcher they had a phrase for it - "having a pleasant day" IIRC but I'm sure that was a cleaned up version.
You're confusing specific bits of literature for wider legal and societal recognition and discourse regarding sex. They can overlap, but they absolutely can differ, too.
I think the current generation is a little less open about it than the past couple - Millennials and Gen Xers.
We had glam metal, gangsta rap, worldwide porn etc. Nowadays teenagers kind of cringe when there's a sex scene in a movie. The opposite was true when we were kids.
The pervasiveness of social media gives the illusion that we’re more sex positive now than in the past. 20+ years ago you had no venue to be sex positive other than talking to friends etc. I’d say we’re more comfortable mainstreaming kink now than we were 30 years ago but that’s also due to social media. If you don’t know about something, you’re not about to try it on for size.
I agree with you - having private bedrooms and private spaces for each family member is a really modern concept. Whole families used to share rooms. Even the very rich would have servants in their bedrooms. Sex used to be a lot more open and a lot less taboo to see or hear happen.
Nobody was more freakshow open about it (when they were young) than the boomers. It’s gotten more and more prudish since the ‘90s, though it’s gotten fantastically easier to be openly LGBT.
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u/SousVideDiaper 6h ago
People act like eating ass is a new thing but that's only because we're far more open about sex than our elders
Plenty of what they did in private was just as raunchy as what people do today