Growing up, there was a version of history that went like this: The Victorians were prudes, and no one had sex and if they did, they didn't like it. The Roaring 20s had flappers and shorter skirts, but they were still prudes. Maybe a couple of them had sex, but they didn't really know what they were doing. In the Great Depression, people were too depressed to have sex. In WWII, too busy winning the War to have sex. And the 50s--no way was Apple Pie America having sex. And then in the Summer of Love, a sexual "revolution" occurred, and since then, we have all been liberated from the old fashioned, outdated, and embarrassed subject of sex.
The Baby Boomers like to think they invented sex, drugs, rock and roll. Of course, being the biggest generation in American history, who do they think was making all that whoopee that spawned them?
Growing up in this era of media, I see the grainy black and white images of steam trains and WII bombers. Because they are so small on my screen, somehow it seems like the machinery of yesteryear must be smaller, like models.
Yet, an old WWII bomber is the size of the modern passenger jets. An old Ford Model A is actually not a wind-up toy car but about the same size as a Prius. An old steam train's wheel is taller than my head. Some how the past gets reduced like a diorama. 
So too, it would seem that the tin-type faces of now long-dead generations in their bloomers and top hats would only have sex in the missionary position, and only for the act of pro-creation. In today's world we know we can find explicit images if we google words like "cock sucking." We think, girls gagging on stiff dicks, spreading wide, bending over, and gang bangs are somehow a reflection of our "Post Sexual Revolution," a product of this internet era. But why do assume that those somber faces in the dusty family archives weren't getting it on with just as must lust and gusto? They sucked cock, played with dildos, and had three-ways.
Here's a special tribute to those who "came" before us--
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