I don't have proof, only anecdotal evidence, but I have the feeling that there are plenty of oddnesses in suburban and rural lives. Once I was driving my grandmother, then in her 80's, past a cemetery, and to my amazement, she began free-associating on the lurid complexities in the lives some of her old friends and neighbors who were now residing there, and it was amazing. And those naughtinesses would have been before the sexual revolution and the ready availability of birth control. And Grandma told me that her mother was unfaithful to her father, and that was (she thought) the reason for his suicide. City or country, there was always temptation and there was always opportunity. I'm sure there's much more of both now, though.
There is more anonymity in cities, of course. |
