drmstream[writing]

The 1920’s are char­ac­ter­ized as a decade of pros­per­ity. Though ini­tially eco­nomic in nature, this pros­per­ity dif­fused into all other are­nas of Amer­i­can life. It was the age of the flap­per, of speakeasies, and of triv­ial spend­ing. It was an era that threat­ened the image of the Vic­to­rian woman — - timid, con­ser­v­a­tive and polite in char­ac­ter — and an era that toyed with social taboos. The Media pop­u­lar­iza­tion of Freud’s ideas unrav­eled the social hush on mat­ters of a sex­ual nature and made sex appeal a sta­ple fix­ture of the adver­tise­ment industry.

We all think our era explores new fron­tiers of debauch­ery, but it’s just our own silly igno­rance at work.  Think about it:  close to 100 years ago, Amer­i­can cul­ture brought sex out of the shad­ows and made it an emblem of proud explo­ration.  The soci­o­log­i­cal rea­sons are com­plex, and the­o­ries ever chang­ing, but the impli­ca­tions for expe­ri­ence are no more pro­found than they are today.  Look good, feel good, have fun!