>>7103000> The 50s were not wholesome, they just fucking lied to themselves a lot and kept their eyes shut hard. I think most people who grew up in that era knew how unwholesome (read: normal) it was.
It's TV and Hollywood in general that made people, especially later generations, have a false ideal world of the 50s
Newspapers generally didn't focus on certain issues, but they reported on it, albeit in smaller sections than how oversensationalized on sex and violence the news is today.
After the 60s, the media started to loosen up.
However, literature has remained mostly the same since forever.
