Shifts in Attitude: Before
Joan McCracken: '...you could not kiss...'Anita Fream: '...you want to be a virgin...'Sylvia Clark: 'One was supposed to go from absolute celibacy... to suddenly... blossoming sexuality with one's husband...'Joan McCracken: '...we all wore girdles...'Loretta McLaughlin: '...they would burn in hell fire for eternity...'Richard Hauskenecht: '...mistakes occurred...'Joan McCracken: '...condoms were not acceptable...'Leslie Woodcock-Tentler: '...looking for another answer...'

Joan McCracken | video | transcript

The code of ethics were: You could not kiss until you dated three times. And then if you went steady, it was assumed but you see we never talked about it to each other, because, of course, we didn't want anyone else to know we were fast. It was like, if you were going steady, you could pet. Now, I don't even know if that word is in existence today. But you could pet. This was above the waist, of course. And it was either, you could pet with your clothes on, or after you'd gone steady a long, long, long time, probably pinned (which was like engaged to be engaged), perhaps you could pet -- above the waist, of course -- but with not so many clothes on.







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