Sex abuse is allegedly up a huge, but un-pin-downable percentage due to all sorts of personality issues involved in reporting. Needless to say, one gets tired of all the claims that the world today is just as wholesome as it used to be – not to mention that vice has been de-viciousized in the name of diversity. It would follow that Rome flourished during the reign of Caligula, and only started to decline when Rome’s Tea Partiers tried to end the emperor’s parties.
When they say, “It’s the same as it’s always been,” they’re talking generally about the first derivative.