I have to respectfully disagree with parts of #14. I was in a sorority 36-40 years ago and truly hope fraternities today aren’t wilder and more dangerous for female party goers. During the 1970s, at some (not all) fraternities, it was acceptable to get unsuspecting women drunk and take advantage of them, sometimes while they were unconscious. Drugs were sometimes slipped into drinks. But it was never called rape because it was impossible for fraternity boys to rape sorority girls. That was just not a concept that existed. It was up to women to protect themselves. If they didn’t, they were slut shamed. If we were savvy, we knew some houses were unsafe and avoided them.
I only write this because it seems to me important not to romanticize the past, especially where abuse of women is concerned.
Listening to my parents, I am pretty sure these same behaviors existed at fraternities in their college years as well. Once my mother told me in a round about sort of way, my father didn’t belong to one of “those” fraternities.
eta: and I’m not convinced premarital sex is more common today than in any time in history. It seems possible to me the brief time where we had access to the pill, but no HIV/AIDs may have been the “wildest” in that regard.