Sexually transmitted diseases

"Only for sailors..." BS. Condoms were on sale behind the counter at the drug store. Condoms have been around for centuries. They used to use lamb's intestines back in the early days.

No. Watch the film "Summer of '42" or perhaps it was in the sequel, Class of '44. The boys in one of those films are trying to buy condoms at a drug store.

The thing they did fairly well (and ironically in the later seasons) related to gender was when the guys have to escape from the girls dorm room in college because of the girls curfew. Women college students did have in loco parentis----unlike their male counterparts until the 1960's at many public schools.

I originally watched it WELL before I enrolled at college (in the 00's) when I never had that type of curfew. I pretty much did what I wanted and did not have a curfew and neither did my friends.

But the episode really communicates how frustrating, archaic, and absurd these policies had become.

They now 'trapped' the very same female college students which they were once set up to protect in the early 20th century. The dorm mothers were now being regarded as overprotective busybody wardens.

Because of those dorm mothers, the women students lacked freedom and were not treated as equals who had a 'right' to be in college.

The latter seasons often take a beating but this episode pretty much captured the unfairness of how women in college were treated in the 1960s. I think the cast etc drew on their own personal experiences and feelings. A lot of the cast/crew had themselves attended/graduated colleges in the 1960's when these curfews still did exist--and people had protested---and finally ended them.

so it was very convincing.

Please don't tell me that Batman is now gay...

Could be!

Fortunately, the diseases that could eventually kill you were (mostly) easily cured with a shot of penicillin.

What a nonsense statement, that's your dirty mind dude.

Watch the whole series again, and you will discover some gems about Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli.

His whole persona was an act, sheer bravado, because of his childhood, it was a 'tool' he used to survive.

Yes he gets the girls, but whose to say the more 'respectable' natured Fonzie, the Fonzie that materialised in scenes with 'Mrs C' - isn't the real Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli that takes over when one on one, who knows ?

Happy Days was a family oriented show from beginning to end, so perhaps it's more of a reflection of your nature, & what you would have done with all those girls, rather than Fonzie.

Yes, it's quite possible he did indeed 'carve a notch' on his bedpost with every girl, but it's also quite possible he didn't.

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