I soon discovered others have been frustrated at how our multicultural society's rising prudery about humour has resulted in missed opportunities for building relationships.
These entries reveal not a political caricature of prudery and hypocrisy -- the stereotypes that subsequent generations affixed to her age -- but a high-spirited romantic.
The turning-back-the-clock analogy is wrong, anyway, as social attitudes are more like a metronome, swinging from one extreme to another, from excessive licence to prudery.
