People were not facing sex with a grave attitude in the Middle Ages! Have you read Chaucer? People were not facing sex with a grave attitude in the Renaissance! Have you read Shakepeare? Prostitutes have been around since time immemorial. Folks were getting knocked up in the back of '57 Chevy's.
Our sex drive can make us act like animals, regardless of birth control. I'm not arguing that bc doesn't take away some of the risk, but the risk hadn't stopped people for generations.
Surely there have always been those who took risks and lived outside the norms. But nowhere near the numbers that we have today. You know why? Because we have no norms. We have given up teaching that sexuality is for marriage and instead have taught that birth control means you can have all the sex you can get without any responsibility.
There's a huge difference between people rebelling against the norms, pushing the limits and society having no norms whatsoever. How many children are born out of wedlock? 70 per cent among blacks, 30 among whites. How many single parent families?
What is acceptable today was fringe behavior in the past. Girls used to be ashamed to get pregnant, now they hurry to sign up for welfare. Boys would know that if they screwed up, they would have to marry the girl.
Now we have birth control and, when that fails, abortion. And look what it's brought us.
SD