I agree: “we” didn’t think about it, because we weren’t constantly being told that we should. However, we also didn’t think about harm that was being done, such as Liberace’s lifestyle, or children who were being abused while it didn’t cross our minds.
It’s a bit of a double-edged sword. Do we see more of it because there is more of it, or is it because only now it is being aired.
The price of crime has been lowered, so the base instincts have less of a governor on them.
What really frosts me is the marketing of sex to our youth.
Brings to mind C.S. Lewis quote:
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.”