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Because now you get a lifetime label as a registered sex offender if you get caught.

Additionally, those of us who grew up in the 80's had the absolute fear of AIDS drilled into us. IMO, the AIDS epidemic blunted the libido of at least one generation.

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I'm in my 30s so remember the AIDS epidemic. I can't say it featured on my list of fears as a teenager, and I'm sure modern teenagers even less so.

Almost nobody got laid in the 80's. Fact.

In the 80s AIDS was the gay disease. Also people live longer than a decade.

People who grew up in the 80s were by definition not getting laid until the 90s for the most part.

As one of those people, well, it didn't stop me. But the terror was real.

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