If it's all the same to you...

Following on in the general theme of retrospection, here is the cover of a rather fantastic book I recently found. When I first opened the cover, I noticed this, printed on the first page:

‘First published in May 1968
Reprinted in the same month
Third impression August 1968
Fourth impression June 1970
Fifth impression January 1973
Sixth impression (revised) June 1973’

Cruising around YouTube lately, I also unearthed this handy film:

This film has been viewed 360,563 times.

It makes you think doesn’t it?

In forty years, we have done some stuff. This might sound funny to someone of a certain age, but I still get a buzz from the fact that I have my very own telephone, one that I can pluck from the back pocket of my jeans everytime it rings. Anyone under the age of 18 will have no idea how much time I spent sitting and staring at this version that was attached to my parent’s kitchen wall. Cordless? We had to wait another ten years for that. Quite asides from the fact that I control my own fertility, (my mother had no such luxury). I can also book a flight to Paris, Copenhagen or Brussels, (on my small, neat laptop, whilst utilizing the local supply of broadband technology), for under £50 quid without leaving the house. I might even consider this, if I had more money than sense.

But some things don’t change.

‘How does sexual intercourse take place?
What do people feel like during intercourse?
What is masturbation?
What is V.D? Why is it dangerous?’

These are chapter headings from a book first published in 1968. They are also questions that are answered in this film. It doesn’t matter how far we ‘advance’ in this world. It makes no odds how sophisticated the methods by which information can be delivered become. Young people have the same questions about sex now as they did then. Go figure.