Now it is considered scandalous that some one should think that way.
Correct. My Daddy told me the same thing when I was a teenager except it was just a plain aspirin, not a Bayer.
He also told me it was my responsiblity to keep the snake in the cage until I was married because when a guy's hormones turn on, his brain turns off.
Back in the day, it was a routine parental responsibility to have these type of father-son and mother-daughter talks when the children came of age. If one spouse wasn't up to the task, they could also be father-daughter or mother-son talks. My wife was too embarassed to talk about it, so I gave the same talk to my girls. That's the way responsible parents raised their kids and, most of the time, it worked.
Those rare times when it didn't, there were various responsible ways of dealing with it which didn't involve tossing the baby in a trash can.
This exemplifies the doctrine that any internally-consistent world view has an opposing world view that is exactly contradictory in every particular...and equally internally consistent. The Christian world view holds that premarital sex is sinful, no matter who engages in it nor with whom. The American secularist world view holds that sex is always licit, no matter who engages in it or with whom. The difference couldn’t be put more plainly (not that Andrea Mitchell is in a position to notice).
For people like Andrea Mitchell, what was once bad is now good. Sort of like saying ‘What Were Once Vices are Now Habits’. These people live in a universe precisely opposite to mine (and, I think, yours). Rick answered perfectly, assuming he was too careful to be sarcastic, which would be the easy retort and get him into no end of trouble. He done good.