[ SECRET POST #6714 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6714 ⌋

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Re: Any old business? (Old secrets and comments)

[(Anonymous)]

1970s Sleaze

Someone asked why the UK was so sleazy in the 1970s. Repliers stated it wasn't just the UK.

I just want to add in from the US side:
-2nd wave feminism started in the late 1960s
-birth control pills were prescribed starting in the 1960s
-Roe v Wade meant abortions became legal in the 1970s
-Stonewall snowballed LGBT+ community building, pushing queerness towards mainstream notice
-the Hays code in Hollywood ended at the end of the 1960s
-"decency" laws were overturned in the late 1960s-early 1970s
-technology advancing in a way in which video camera ownership, VHS tapes with VCRs at home, video/games rental shops really opened avenues for more independent filmmaking (*cough* expansion of pornography *cough*)
All that (and likely a lot more) paved the way for the 1970s to be a messy era where progressive movements encouraged more voices and points or views to be boosted.

Conservative Christian white washed hierarchy was heavily questioned, those in power also had to deal with societal unrest with progressive ideologies and expensive wars in South East Asia and the Middle East.
Like...there was a lot going on in the 1970s. The sleaziness in places like the US was a result of a lot of things interconnecting and clashing.

In NYC, people went to warehouses where "points were being filmed". They would all sit in a room where there would be a bed and a camera pointing at it and watch the "recording" of two sex workers fornicating. Those sessions actually weren't always recorded.
Like, it's because those in power were too busy elsewhere to see how local communities were keeping afloat.
Many citizens had to turn to alternative work to make money and obviously sex work, burglary, theft, fraud would become big.
Technology was advancing in a way in which more citizens could start creating their own pieces of art. And human have a habit of obsessing over sex. It was more than just porn films. The printing press industry was huge. Playboy and other nudey mags made big business.

I was born in the 1980s so this elder millennial just has always found the 20th century so very fascinating. What a wild century.

Re: Any old business? (Old secrets and comments)

[iff_and_xor]

All very interesting, thanks for the addition!