>>21559032>>21559046at the start of the 1900s, most people didn’t even get high school degrees, IIRC.
there was no internet, phones, etc.
you had a very private life
social security cards weren’t even a thing so you could literally just get up and go to a new city with a completely brand new identity.
“pedophilia” didn’t even apply to 12-14 year olds until at least the 50s,
and even then it was just kinda frowned upon in the way that you frown upon leo dicaprio dating 18yos
pic related was one of the big names in rock&roll in the 50s — Jerry Lee Lewis