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Originally Posted by Zing
thing for me though is how much better is it really now? No discipline? gangs? kids with knives gun crime? How much better is society for the liberalisation of our culture? I know there was always crime but there was an element of respect and I find that lacking in this day and age. Are not attitudes worse in some ways now than they used to be? Ok homosexuality used to be illegal but you used to have tighter community
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I don't know Zing.
However I suspect that for every good issue in the 40s,50s and 60s there were some equally awful ones.Yes commuinities might have been tighter but there was no reliable contraception,backstreet abortionists,homosexuals were in danger of imprisonment and the divorce laws were draconian and not easy to obtain and racial and sexual equality were not enshrined in law..
Rose coloured specs can make things look better than they were.
The only thing I can say was better then was childhood.Kids could climb trees,skin their knees get dirty and be away from home for hours unsupervised and they didn't get into trouble with the law.
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
It decriminalised sodomy which was originally illegal for hetrosexual couple the same as homosexual couple, in 1885 it was reclassified to just between two men. Homosexual intercourse was never illegal otherwise it would have also legislated against women and good old Queen Victoria could never imagine that two women would want to have sex. Also homosexuality is the attraction and not the sexual act. So homosexuality was never illegal in this country
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It was illegal.Yes lesbianism was not because Vick didn't believe it possible(being thoroughly and firmly heterosexual in nature)so that bit was never law.The other was..and many people were prosecuted as a result.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967