This 2012 article starts off with a claim:<p>&gt; 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.<p>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&#x27;t get the same opinion.<p>&gt; “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?<p>It&#x27;s like the 1960s sexual revolution, and the era between The Pill and AIDS, when most VDs could easily be treated, didn&#x27;t even happen.<p>Consider this scene from the 1969 &quot;Alice&#x27;s Restaurant&quot; movie - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;sP05C_agI3k?t=1316" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;sP05C_agI3k?t=1316</a> (note: shows a topless and purportedly underage woman), where the self-described &#x27;teenybopper&#x27; lists the number of people she&#x27;s had sex with, and how she want to sleep with Arlo - someone she&#x27;s just met.<p>And I think there&#x27;s a discussion in Heinlein&#x27;s &quot;To Sail Beyond the Sunset&quot; 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&#x27;s underneath the sanitized sexual history of the US.