[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

WAS the culture then so "repressed", or did the media present a fake and narrow image of 1950s society? Speak to people who actually LIVED through it (as I have to my parents). Also, I think the country was better off in those days when the media was "repressive" than it is now with the media the way it is.

[RLK]

WAS the culture then so "repressed", or did the media present a fake and narrow image of 1950s society? Speak to people who actually LIVED through it (as I have to my parents).

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I lived though the '50s and the ''40s. They were nothing similar to the way they are falsely depicted.

[Siamese Princess]

WAS the culture then so "repressed", or did the media present a fake and narrow image of 1950s society? Speak to people who actually LIVED through it (as I have to my parents). Also, I think the country was better off in those days when the media was "repressive" than it is now with the media the way it is.

Remember, too, that you can't separate sexual morality or immorality from general morality or immorality, in an individual or a society. There has been a massive breakdown in overall morality and simple consideration for others over the past 40 years. In the much maligned 50s, there was little crime despite a higher rate of poverty. A friend of mine, who grew up in Washington Heights, New York, told me that even in the early 60s the door to his family apartment was left unlocked during the day. The crime rate began to go up in the mid-60s. People in general were better behaved, politer and even dressed better.