[BitWielder1]

I suspect this has been going on in waves for thousands of years.
A new generation discovers sex and thinks it's great until the onset of diseases and unwanted children.
Then they pull back and realize morals is not so bad after all.
One or two generations later they have a sexual revolution again and thinks the old generation are just too old fashioned.
And so it goes, on and on.

[Bernard Marx]

Pretty obvious, isn’t it? But humans have very short memories, huge egos and don’t bother with history much. Most think they’re the very first to experience primeval thoughts and feelings.

[Strategerist]

Eh, the amount of sex doesn’t change, it’s just the rhetoric about it that does.

Another factor is “good ‘ol days”-ism, the idea that everything was perfect until about 1966.

[Claud]

Exactly right.

Humanity keeps screwing up. Humanity keeps correcting its course—usually only after something brutal and terrible happens. And then humanity screws up again.

Progressives utterly cannot understand this. Some conservatives can’t either actually.