My point is that modern women have access to a larger variety of safe and effective contraception, than women from 100 years ago. Condoms were pretty much the only available method of contraception that was somewhat safe and effective. Plus condoms were not as effective for preventing pregnancies in previous eras, compared to condoms in present-day society
Condoms were more expensive before they started to be manufactured via automated process in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Almost half of women in New York were using condoms in the 1890’s / 1900’s
A significant share of people had access to condoms before the 1950’s, but my point is still correct. There were more condoms in circulation after the 1950s than before the 1950’s. When the commercial availability of condoms increased over the 1950’s and 1960’s, condoms became more popular, more people started to use condoms. Before 1950, it was a significant minority, but still a minority of people who used condoms. After 1950, the majority of people started to use condoms
According to the source on PsychologyToday, men overstate their bodycount by up to 4 times higher than women
This indicates
the average female bodycount would be no more than 4x higher than the average men.
Thus if the average Greatest Gen bodycount was 3, then realistically the average woman from Greatest Gen couldn’t have had a bodycount higher than 4 - 5, assuming you believe the average man from Greatest Gen had a bodycount of 1
I’m willing to bet the difference in bodycount for the average Greatest man and the average Greatest woman was no more than 2. Basically I think the average Greatest Gen woman did not have a bodycount higher than 3.
It’s not practical for the average Greatest Gen woman to have a +4 bodycount if the average Greatest Gen man had at least one previous partner
The only way you can rationalize a social situation where the average man bodycount is 1 and the average woman bodycount is 5, is if either:
(a) There were loads of lesbian foids in Greatest Gen (but statistics show this is not the case)
(b) A very, very small group of Greatest men, fucked a very high number of women who they eventually didn't marry or have children with. In other words there was hypergamy in Greatest Gen, and hypergamy was even more extreme for Greatest Gen than it is for Gen Z. This would explain how the average women can amass a bodycount of +5 under conditions where the average man would have a bodycount of 1
But contraception was more limited in availability; the birth control pill had not been commercialized until 1960. The devices for protected sex were not as effective back then as they are now in modern society. There would have been
more failed marriages and single parent mothers in Greatest Gen (due to adultery, pre-marital or extramarital pregnancies) if the average Greatest Gen woman had a bodycount of 4 or higher
There probably were some women from Greatest Gen who had extramarital affairs. But based on the average Greatest bodycount, I’m confident the rate of adultery by women in Greatest Gen was lower than the rate of adultery by women in Boomers, Gen X, Millennials
Maybe not 24/7 surveillence, but the movements of Greatest Gen & Silent Gen women were probably watched with more scrutiny, than for Boomer, Millennial, Gen X and Gen Z women
This was not always the case, not for Silent Gen & Greatest Gen when they were adults
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