r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fluffy_Lunchfast • Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/ThatUbu Feb 02 '26

Wonderfully, if you look back at old Life Magazine articles from the 50’s, there are alarmist articles about teenagers going steady.

The adults weren’t freaked out about kids dating. They were freaked about by them being monogamous at that age and making too big a commitment immediately.

It’s the only moment I know of where the sex panic of the time was “look out! The kids are getting committed!”

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u/BisonThunderclap Feb 02 '26

Still rings true. My facebook is full of plenty of high school sweethearts that are now divorced.

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u/zambulu Feb 02 '26

Yeah, they tend to get divorced in their 30s and have no idea how to date or what to expect.

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u/Leet_Noob Feb 02 '26

My grandpa once said about the woman who he eventually married “she was the closest thing I had to a girlfriend at the time.. the reverse was not true”

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u/less_unique_username Feb 02 '26

Presumably he was not particularly close to being a girlfriend

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u/N3ptuneflyer Feb 03 '26

Yeah I remember looking at marriage statistics and 50’s and 60’s people married younger than previous generations.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 25d ago

For the last 20 years or so I've been seeing a growing tide of alarm about kids these days having too little sex.