This 2012 article starts off with a claim: > The old-fashioned custom known as “dating” (as in: guy calls up girl and asks her out next Friday, takes her to a

This 2012 article starts off with a claim: > The old-fashioned custom known as “dating” (as in: guy calls up girl and asks her out next Friday, takes her to a movie and a meal, picks up the cheque, takes her home, kisses her goodnight and, if he’s lucky, gets to third base) is something their grandparents did. Today, people just hook up. Did the author get this from watching old TV shows? Because if you read, say, the Feynman stories about picking up women in the 1950s, you don't get the same opinion. > “Today’s young man faces a sex life that probably would have exceeded the most optimistic imagination of most men throughout history,” Roy Baumeister says in his book Is There Anything Good About Men? It's like the 1960s sexual revolution, and the era between The Pill and AIDS, when most VDs could easily be treated, didn't even happen. Consider this scene from the 1969 "Alice's Restaurant" movie - https://youtu.be/sP05C_agI3k?t=1316 https://youtu.be/sP05C_agI3k?t=1316 (note: shows a topless and purportedly underage woman), where the self-described 'teenybopper' lists the number of people she's had sex with, and how she want to sleep with Arlo - someone she's just met. And I think there's a discussion in Heinlein's "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" describing how the people of some era (1960s?-1980s?) feel as comfortable giving a blowjob as previous generations might have shaken hands. Heinlein was a proponent of sexual liberation and free love, but surely his writings give an indication of what what's underneath the sanitized sexual history of the US.