That’s a good point.
But man what about stuff like parks and campsites, or rest stops along the highways being plagued by weirdos? Why does that happen now, and didn’t happen then, at least on as big a scale? Or is that wrong? I mean they have huge volunteer ‘condom cleanups’ in some urban parks.
Freegards
It probably did happen then. We just didn’t hear about it as much. In this internet world with 3 24/7 “news” network there’s no longer any such thing as local news, everything is national is enough people share it on Facebook. So in the 50s if some park in Philadelphia was over run with perverts people in Chicago and LA would probably never hear about it, now we will. Remember the first production of West Side Story was in 1957, so anybody thinking that era lacked things like youth violence and sex needs to explain how a 1950s audience could even understand a Broadway musical about these thing (well OK it was the 50s so they just kissed). I just saw a story saying Kitty Genovese’s killer died, that was 1964, not long after this article’s supposed golden era, populated by largely the same people, who did nothing.
The 1950s had serial killers and rapists and perverts just like any other time in human history, it just didn’t have a media that splashed that kind of stuff in your face 24/7.