When the telephone became an accessible technology many an editorial and sermon was devoted to its inherent wickedness, since young people could talk without chaperonage and even *gasp* arrange assignations!

Isn’t that always the way? The previous bad breakup is a pretty common whiny boy excuse. My ex-girlfriend was meeeeeeeeeeeeeean. Wah wah wah! Why do we give men a pass on their behavior because of this, but with women they’re sad, pathetic and bitter? The majority of guys I meet want FWB, and they all have their…

Me too. I was having dinner with a group of people last week. I was trying to make conversation with one of the guys at the table, and I swear to God he started looking at his phone and swiping, swiping, swiping. He’s really attractive, but the capacity for anything beyond having hook-ups with hot young girls is not…

I will have you know when I was a black kid intern working in investment banking, I also tried to sleep with as many women as possible. Actually when I went back to college I was also trying to sleep with as many women as possible and...in high school......hmmm....

That is awesome. I feel like Adam and Eve totally looked at each other at one point and said, “today’s youth are destroying society!”

Soo tired of arrogant men! To be fair, though, they’re not ALL arrogant. And hopefully, by the time you are 30 or 40 you know how to not put up with arrogant assholes who look at pussy as their right for all females to give up to them whenever they want it.

Same here - I got that article online w my subscription and could barely get as far as I did. In fact, I closed the window, thinking “Jezebel will tell me all I need to know about the rest of this very soon.”

“Is the Younger Generation in Peril?” (Literary Digest, 1921)

In college I had a "sociology of families" class and we had to read a bunch of articles from all different time periods that were meant to incite moral panic over youth dating behavior. I wish I still had them.

Right? They recycle these dumbass alarmist “youth gone wild” articles EVERY. SINGLE. DECADE.

Can you present one of these 1920’s articles? I’d really like to read it.

I’m an old so it gave me the seizures. I had to check with the google to make sure. At least it’s not the cancer.

If the financial crisis proved anything, it’s that EVERYTHING is based on what 10 super-assholes are doing in Manhattan

We all remember how all that wild living ended for Demi Moore in “About Last Night.” Or whatever damned movie that was. Actually I don’t remember because Gen Xers are now The Olds and stuff and these kids today with their Tinders can get their soft dicks and midnight poon off our lawns.

Actually surprisingly effective against herpes. In that, they dont technically provide protection, but somehow there’s a fire lower incidence rate if you use condoms 100% of the time than if you dont. Condoms: really cool.

More like the 1860s. We read an article from a New York newspaper about the horrors of “The Sporting Life” (which is what they used to call young men slutting it up) in my History of Sexuality class back in college.

The best is the article from a few weeks ago (I think it was on Jez) about how boomers got laid more than millenials. More or less boils down to “Old People Think Youngins Are Fucking Too Much!”

I like the idea but it lacks the easy visual brag. What about some sort of merit badge system?

“Guys view everything as a competition,” he elaborates with his deep, reassuring voice. “Who’s slept with the best, hottest girls?”