I guarantee that only about one in five male clubbers were truly "only there for the music". Maybe fewer than that.
Women went along with it because, well, what was the alternative, and the contemporary culture encouraged it.
Online dating has its problems, certainly, but the risks people took in the 70s, 80s, 90s were kind of insane by today's standards. And also the amount of unwanted attention women had to put up with. Sure, some of the attention was wanted, but surely not most of it.
I guarantee that only about one in five male clubbers were truly "only there for the music". Maybe fewer than that.
Women went along with it because, well, what was the alternative, and the contemporary culture encouraged it.
Online dating has its problems, certainly, but the risks people took in the 70s, 80s, 90s were kind of insane by today's standards. And also the amount of unwanted attention women had to put up with. Sure, some of the attention was wanted, but surely not most of it.