Here’s what gets me overall in the ‘old versus new’ debate. The ‘old’ hotties had PLENTY of skeletons in their closets as well (not all but a good chunk IE Maralyn/JFK etc). But they didn’t run to the nearest reporter to brag about it.
Any sex ‘films’ (since there was no tape or iPhone video) rarely if ever saw the light of day. They weren’t anything byt actresses or pinups and not out there 24/7 pushing soeme leftist meme. In short, even if they didn’t actually in real life ‘have’ class, they portrayed it. They didn’t look like the same thing you could pick up in a Vegas dive bar at 4 AM. They weren’t smoking Hopium and blasting their own country. Most likely they were on Bob Hope’s USO tour and not hiding behind a wall of thug security whenever some GI asked for a pic or autograph.
Sure some modern starlets do today’s tours...then come home and bitch about the evils of America. No, not all, but many. Up until Hanoi Jane (PBUH - piss be upon her), NONE I am aware of did. All in all, I just think the old school haZ a whole lot more ‘hotness’ to it than the modern version for a number of reasons.