Ridgerunner @ 136

Right. But your experience was in the 70s and 80s – AFTER the sexual earthquake of the 60s had re-shaped the culture. It demonstrated rather than negated the great change in society from the sexual revolution of the 60s. Flirting has been a feminine pattern forever. Widespread flirting by openly offering sex is relatively new.

Young guys today are simply following the natural progression from that 60s earthquake, rather than making informed, wise choices about their sexual options. But what young guy looks far ahead or thinks in terms of what is good for society at that point?? It would take some new societal standards, persuasively enforced, to affect that.

My point is that choices by young guys also affect the choices of young women. That shapes the outlook of women in general, in many of the ways that Whiskey so deplores. They go together.

Society no longer protects young women. So they have had to adapt. Many of those adaptations have been very bad for society – and also for men and women, in general.

To change, society would need to re-instate the kinds of protection for young women that it threw overboard in the 60s. Better relations between men and women would then be more possible.