Cowboy days and upright ways.

What went wrong?

Most of the western novels written before 1970 have no porn or swearing and the guy that had a high moral code always won the battles. Remember when TV was like that?
I was just reading a western about a cowboy who was walking through a lonely mining camp, operated mostly, by men. He described what he saw; " There were, of course, many dogs running loose in the camp and he supposed that the workers, womanless and without families, picked up a dog as a substitute for the affection of humans."
I don't know if it was me or because I had read so many sick emails about the way our society is today but I had to read that sentence again until the truth came to me. This was written at a time when homosexuality and bestiality were as foreign as women wearing men's clothing.
It's a testament against our times that if that same sentence were written in a book today, we would know they were talking about sex with dogs instead of the natural affection we all need in our lives which the author meant it to mean.
How far down we have come.