was it only adults?
I suspect there is more to the story, contribution or not.
judging from recent ivory tower political correctness it was never “just adults”
(see recent conviction fo two adult males who adopted a child and created a horror story life for the child)
George Orwell, writing to a contemporary in France who was considering a visit to London in the 1930’s, warned him not to make eye contact with anyone in a public loo, lest he be arrested for public lewdness. Pre-War England may have been a little too uptight.