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Doesn't It Make You Think
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All the paedophilia, rape, FGM, child marriages etc. that is in the news everyday nowadays, how women have survived, and how we were so , unaware, years ago when we were young, that this was going on. I feel so lucky I never had to deal with any of this in my life.
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Awareness is indeed a double edged sword - it enables us to know what goes on and be alert to anything we may think is untoward and act. It allows us (if we are in certain positions) to help in various ways.
However the very awareness of some of these horrors does rob us of some innocence that previous ignorance gave us.
However the very awareness of some of these horrors does rob us of some innocence that previous ignorance gave us.
I don't remember anything being said about FGM in the 40s/50s. Or child marriages either. The word paedophilia wasn't bandied around or even the word' rape '. Are you inferring that our parents knew that these things were going on yet encouraged children to play outside, walk to school on their own ,travel on buses etc ?No groups of parents waiting at the school gates .
Spath seems to think there must have been more depravity back then than
now.The only thing I remember my parents saying was---don't talk to
or take sweets from strangers .And avoid that dirty old man in a flasher mac.
There were no 'Gays' the term then was 'Homosexual' and mothers would take their young boys into the Ladies toilets or else the mother would stand at the entrance to the Men's and keep shouting to their boys--'are you alright'?We did know that the toilets were the places where the homos carried on with one another. The 'f' word was never heard in public. When it came out in print in the library book-Lady Chatterley's Lover there was a well worn path leading to the bookshelf where it was kept and it had been opened at the page where the 'f' word was so many times it opened automatically.
Drugs were mainly aspirin or Fenning's little healers. That is until the 60s when LSD arrived and those taking it were hallucinating and throwing themselves through windows or off buildings.
Parents nowadays are terrified to let their kids play outside,daren't let them walk to school on their own ,have tracking devices on their phones and ferry their kids around in the family 'taxi' . Drugs are rife and more acceptable nowadays.I wouldn't swop my childhood with any of the kids of today.
Spath seems to think there must have been more depravity back then than
now.The only thing I remember my parents saying was---don't talk to
or take sweets from strangers .And avoid that dirty old man in a flasher mac.
There were no 'Gays' the term then was 'Homosexual' and mothers would take their young boys into the Ladies toilets or else the mother would stand at the entrance to the Men's and keep shouting to their boys--'are you alright'?We did know that the toilets were the places where the homos carried on with one another. The 'f' word was never heard in public. When it came out in print in the library book-Lady Chatterley's Lover there was a well worn path leading to the bookshelf where it was kept and it had been opened at the page where the 'f' word was so many times it opened automatically.
Drugs were mainly aspirin or Fenning's little healers. That is until the 60s when LSD arrived and those taking it were hallucinating and throwing themselves through windows or off buildings.
Parents nowadays are terrified to let their kids play outside,daren't let them walk to school on their own ,have tracking devices on their phones and ferry their kids around in the family 'taxi' . Drugs are rife and more acceptable nowadays.I wouldn't swop my childhood with any of the kids of today.
Personally think these things have always been around but the majority of people were not aware of them. Child prostitution was apparently rife in Victorian London (and no doubt elsewhere) and FGM and child marriages have been part of certain cultures for centuries. Probably the same goes for rape (used as a weapon of war) and paedophilia too. Nothing new under the sun unfortunately.
andres, all these historic child rapes that are now being prosecuted happened in your 'good old days'. It did go on, but children weren't listened to and certainly many children could never talk to their parents about sex, or their 'privates'. Things got a bit better in the 70s when I was a child and there were public information films shown during children's tv schedules warning us of 'stranger danger', all prettily presented by appealing cartoon figures and puppy dogs such as the Charlie Says campaign. We were never told what the danger was.
I know a man in his 70s who was sexually abused by his school teacher - Marcus Marcussen is now in his 90s and is in prison https:/
I suggest you read about Eliza Armstrong, whose sexual abuse as a child changed the law regarding the age of consent from 13 to 16 in 1885.
There were certainly gays in the 60s and 70s - 'gay bashing' was almost an acceptable 'sport'. Gay meaning homosexual was first used in a film in 1938 - Bringing Up Baby, starring Cary Grant.
Drugs were very common in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, such as opium, morphine and cocaine and valium was a very common drug of choice for housewives in the 60s.
Until the 1970s people turned a blind eye to domestic abuse, it was very hard for women to leave their violent husbands, especially if they had children. My own grandmother, in the 1930s, had to wait at the factory gates on pay day to make sure my grandfather didn't drink all his wages in the boozer on his way home and that was not unusual at that time. She'd cop a hiding for it when he got home drunk.
The difference between your good old days and today is that today victims are listened to, children understand that they can and should tell, the legal system reacts properly, people are prosecuted and there is plenty of news coverage so we all know about it.
In 1940 the UK population was 46.5 million approx. It is now around 63 million. If there are more offences today than in 1940 it is because there are far more people in the country; I doubt very much the per centage of offenders has changed. Thankfully the rate of prosecutions and offence reporting has significantly increased.
I know a man in his 70s who was sexually abused by his school teacher - Marcus Marcussen is now in his 90s and is in prison https:/
I suggest you read about Eliza Armstrong, whose sexual abuse as a child changed the law regarding the age of consent from 13 to 16 in 1885.
There were certainly gays in the 60s and 70s - 'gay bashing' was almost an acceptable 'sport'. Gay meaning homosexual was first used in a film in 1938 - Bringing Up Baby, starring Cary Grant.
Drugs were very common in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, such as opium, morphine and cocaine and valium was a very common drug of choice for housewives in the 60s.
Until the 1970s people turned a blind eye to domestic abuse, it was very hard for women to leave their violent husbands, especially if they had children. My own grandmother, in the 1930s, had to wait at the factory gates on pay day to make sure my grandfather didn't drink all his wages in the boozer on his way home and that was not unusual at that time. She'd cop a hiding for it when he got home drunk.
The difference between your good old days and today is that today victims are listened to, children understand that they can and should tell, the legal system reacts properly, people are prosecuted and there is plenty of news coverage so we all know about it.
In 1940 the UK population was 46.5 million approx. It is now around 63 million. If there are more offences today than in 1940 it is because there are far more people in the country; I doubt very much the per centage of offenders has changed. Thankfully the rate of prosecutions and offence reporting has significantly increased.
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