I'm told it was happening during the 70s, too.
I was too busy drinking in college to have a relationship with a woman that was serious enough for sex.
But I will always have the summer of 79 to reminisce.
It happened in the 70’s but nowhere near as much as the 80’s.
In 1979, a girl came to my room but she was 17 so I sent her packing. It happened more in the 80’s.
The social/dating scene was not like this in 1962, when I started college. Things began to change in the mid-60’s. But even in the 70’s, which were pretty free and easy compared to a decade before, affection and mate seeking were still primary. The behavior discussed in the article is just sad; these people are emotionally crippled.