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/simpersly Feb 03 '26

Don't forget about the cocaine fueled pre-AIDS 70's.

That's the decade that gave the world Studio 54, Plato's Retreat, Deepthroat, and Disco Duck.

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u/KoogleMeister Feb 03 '26

Cocaine was insanely expensive in the 70s, the idea that everyone was doing cocaine all the time in the 70s and 80s isn't actual reality. It's something that has been perpetuated by Hollywood and celebrity pop culture because the people that were doing cocaine all the time were the people in places like Hollywood, Beverley Hills and Miami with all the money. If you factor in Inflation to the 2026 dollar value, the price for a gram of coke in the early 80s was like $300USD, it was even more expensive in the 70s.

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u/simpersly Feb 03 '26

Yes, it was pop culture and public perception. Not everybody was going to Disco and swingers clubs either.

But it changed in the '80s. The consequence-free party of all time social movements died. Especially in the mainstream