Yes, but I think more than the issue of stigma even is simply chaperoning away the opportunity. Some urges are just too strong to expect a couple of mid-teenagers to be able to counteract themselves. Give them too much opportunity and they will give in—even if they don’t mean to.
Parents are either so eager to be ‘cool’ and liked by their kids or too lazy to be bothered, I think—which is a real disservice to their children.
That’s like the “steps” to which I was referring-like when parents made the young man visit the daughter at the home in view of the family, etc. The automobile, I think, put paid to that. That’s when “dating” away from the family rather than “courtship” in view of the family, with a serious and honorable end in mind, became the norm.