01-27-2020, 01:32 PM
I'd say people are less likely to admit it today, considering the legal consequences. And still, there were more than one "Doctoral thesis" surveys proposed on BF, even given that there was little available verification that they weren't trolls, and people lined up for them.
50 years ago I was in high school; there were people who admitted and discussed critter bonking at school, on the back of the school bus, etc., in other words where parents weren't listening. Not too specific in case any of those people are still around, but the only public consequence was people making rude animal noises when they passed in the hallway. (Parents/family would have been another matter; a relative was run out of the house permanently when a Polaroid turned up revealing he was gay, sheep shagging would have gotten a similar response I am sure.)
And religious freaks and cults have always been around and still are. But many people then as now didn't appreciate being evangelized to, and they basically gravitated to each other, leaving others alone once you made your position clear. (I haven't seen them here since I led a half-dozen of them through the rain while building fence.) And remember the Puritans? And priests with choir boys? Do you think religious types are "above" riding goats?
I'm going with the number being about twice what was disclosed back then or now, allowing for people who won't 'fess up" on surveys or questionnaires.
