>>942355533 (OP)
the two greatest factors are the decline of religion and the death of shame
people are inherently degenerate fucks who want to suck and fuck and steal and cheat
religion served as an internal check on these impulses; fear of afterlife punishment, or present life punishment by the supernatural
even more pertinent when it comes to women's unhinged sexual behavior was shame; women were terrified of being labeled a slut, loose, used-up, unmarriageable; much of this social shame was actually enforced by other women, not men
these phenomena--the decline of religion and of shame--are related, but not identical
advertising and propaganda, starting in the 1960s and accelerating since then, especially after the fall of the USSR, have encouraged hedonism, indulgence, double lives ("what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas") sexual promiscuity (especially among women), the destruction of traditional family units, and have tried to protray traditional notions of personal and familial progression (marriage, establishing a home together, having children, rootedness) as stifling, oppressive, and outdated
there are historical and other factors that have eased this transition, like the widespread availability of effective birth control, abortion on demand and laws that ensure equal pay for women
essentially, people have a certain nature, and they're willing to indulge or moderate that nature in response to incentives
in earlier times, internal pressure (religion) and external pressure (shame), as well as societal expectations, and economic and sexual realities, encoraged young people to pair bond, form families, and find their sexual outlet in marriage, preferably one entered into young and intended to endure except in the event of serious abuse, abandonment, neglect, or drug (including alcohol) abuse
that's all out the window now, so people indulge their base instincts
whether the new model is compatible with maintaining civilization remmains to be seen
