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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I think home photography was still pretty new 30-40 years ago, might be why some families were weirdly oversharing with baby photos? Idk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more that adults sexualizing children wasn't considered a frequent risk, people didn't think anyone they knew would look at babies that way. Gen X parents really shifted a lot in terms of culture in the US, under their generation child sexual abuse cases have dropped significantly, and that's adjusting to unreported numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

under their generation child sexual abuse cases have dropped significantly

If this is true, that's really impressive. I've heard how insanely widespread all kinds of abuse used to be through history, often even openly. But if the culture shift was really as sharp as this seems to suggest, I'd be worried it could go almost just as fast back in the other direction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I can't say world wide, but in the U.S., home photography was not new 30-40 years ago. I was a kid 30 year ago and I had real camera and various disposable ones over time. Maybe home videography was becoming more common 30-40 years ago, but photography had been around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, home photography wasn't new in the 90s, it'd been worked on for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Would you say home photography was widespread in the 40s? 50s? 60s? 70s?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Also back then you didn't have photo previews plus limited number of photos