“Girls like to be called snuggle-puppies,” one school administrator told the reporter. "They grant the boys liberties. Encourage them to take them and if the young chaps do not, they are called ‘sissies’, ‘poor boobs’ or ‘flat tire.’ "
"Speaking to 1,500 students at Wellesley College in 1921, Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge — the wife of a Princeton professor — railed against “the vulgarity and revolting badness of petting parties.” She said that the loose-moraled gatherings — along with jazz music, unchaperoned dancing and lipstick — were symptomatic of a decadent society
I’m thankful that this slippery slope actually came to fruition. Unfortunately, while we aren’t as lonely because of repressive culture, we are still lonely. Probably has to do with capitalism. That’s the real “revolting badness” that’s “symptomatic of a decadent society.” Starving children and mega-yachts, not flappers and petting parties.
https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/05/26/409126557/when-petting-parties-scandalized-the-nation
I’m thankful that this slippery slope actually came to fruition. Unfortunately, while we aren’t as lonely because of repressive culture, we are still lonely. Probably has to do with capitalism. That’s the real “revolting badness” that’s “symptomatic of a decadent society.” Starving children and mega-yachts, not flappers and petting parties.