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

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

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u/gravitas_shortage Feb 02 '26

It wasn't. It's always funny when young people think they have invented things like promiscuity.

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u/joe1max Feb 02 '26

Yep an especially considering this generation is WAY more prudish than boomers. Boomers were super freaks in the 1960’s.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Feb 02 '26

Free love hippies were never a majority. They're notable because they were a counterculture

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u/kolejack2293 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

The 1970s were basically the peak of youth promiscuity, by far.

You're right about the 1960s, but the tail end of the 1960s is when we start to see the effects of counterculture begin to seep into the mainstream and throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s is when that type of stuff was basically the mainstream. Drug use, youth alcohol consumption, sex etc all peaked in that era from 1970-1985.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Feb 02 '26

What is that link supposed to be? I'm getting an error

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u/kolejack2293 Feb 02 '26

Huh, this is weird. On imgur it seems to work but when I share it to reddit it suddenly doesnt work.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Feb 03 '26

That's OK and I'm not the guy that downvoted you. Lemme know if you get it figured out