They're emerging from under cultural prohibitions that were in place for quite a while...
Verse from the 1930s, explicit and heavy on the SA reference
In a torrid penal chain gang on a dusty southern road
My late lamented daddy has his permanent abode.
Now some were there for stealing, but my daddy’s only fault
Was an overwhelming tendency for criminal assault.
His philosophy was simple and quite free from moral taint:
Seduction is for sissies, but a he-man wants his r--e.
Daddy’s total list of victims was embarrassingly rich,
And one of them was Mother, but he couldn’t tell me which.
Well, I didn’t go to college but I got me a degree.
I reckon I’m the model of a perfect S.O.B.,
I’m a debit to my country but a credit to my Dad,
The most expensive senator the country ever had.
I remember Daddy’s warning—that that r--ing is a crime,
Unless you r--e the voters, a million at a time.
