My mom told of when she was a little girl and walking home with her older sister from school. Some guy flashed them as they walked through an abandoned gravel pit.
They told mom, they called the police and the cops questioned them.
A few days later they called them in to I.D. the guy in a line-up. My mom said she had never been so scared - to be in a police station! (”No - not so much seeing the guy. But just to be inside one - only bad people went there!”)
Anyway - it was him. (They had seen a nearby car at the time that they also I.D.)
Turns out evidence they found also had him as the killer of a young woman in a nearby park!
This would have been around 1925 or so!!
I’m guessing that percentages of people with weird things going on is about the same - but with millions more people there are just more of them. And also the whole risk-reward thing going on, the internet probably allows some of these guys that would think of being peeping Toms on little girls, but would never do it at the risk of getting caught in the bushes outside a window. But with people thinking they can hide behind a computer screen - get the kids to send them the photos with little to no risk. (At least that is what they think!) “Hey - I’m not using my real name - nobody could ever know who I really am!!”)
I agree. We have more people.