I think things must have happened more than we think, and people just didn't talk about it.
Oh, yes, indeed. Sexual shenanigans have been going on forever. The more repressed the society, the less anyone talks about it. When some scandal happens, people just don't mention it. Ever. Even if nothing else entirely makes sense because there's this piece of information that's missing.
Sexual shenanigans have been going on forever.
My dad's stories about sex in the '40s disabused me of any notion that people were behaving themselves before the pill. When my uncle was in HS he was banging a teacher in the supply closet. And that was in the 30s.
My sister was born well under 9 months after my parents married. She was "premature". Yeah, right.
I'm putting off succumbing to the desert talk until Saturday. I have a Valentine's tradition involving a large helping of something decadent, wine, and a viewing of Tank Girl or similar.
I saw a study once that looked at the first few years of the Plymouth Colony, and found some huge percentage of babies born less than six months after their parents were married.