The "Culture of Violence"
We hear everyone lamenting the "Culture of Violence" but when I was in my 20s there was a different culture. A culture of sex. This was pre-AIDS and America was all about exploring and discovering the female orgasm. It was suddenly okay for women to to be more than just a passive receptacle with the lights off. People in the Heartland were even holding orgies and wife swapping parties. Cops were sometimes flustered thinking they were moving in on a drug bust only to discover a bunch of naked people doing nothing illegal at all.
This was all taken from us when AIDS came along. Suddenly what was once considered to be a Happy Meal became pure poison in the minds of America. If there is one thing that can be counted on to change the culture in this country, it's FEAR.
So much for waterbeds and being naked in the jacuzzi. There was a killer on the loose and it was a creepy crawly that would kill you and there was no medicine for it. The Church claimed it was God's punishment for our "sins" because religion has always been at war with both science and sex. One because it competes with their version of history and the other because it competes with their version of joy. You are suppose to feel joy on your knees in their church feeling the Holy Spirit wash over you, not with your legs over someone's shoulders.
There are a LOT of people who feel that AIDS was introduced to end the sexual revolution and it doesn't matter if it was or not because it effectively did. In it's place the "Culture of Sex" was replaced with a "Culture of Violence" as a new generation grew up in a time of "look but don't touch or you'll die" then we all heard "Sex and Violence" over and over as if the two were interchangeable and we wonder how we arrived here.