Comment by npteljes

Times "back then" had the same ambiguity, because the people were the same, but they were much more constrained, due to strictness of culture, and lack of information. Someone who might not be affected by such "ambiguity" would actually encounter it in others all the same, just in a way that would manifest not so directly, but as something like lack of sex drive, constant low mood, incarceration and stigmatization due to culturally inappropriate sex expression, or unexpected violence, either towards self, or others.

Very important to understand that the people didn't change, we just understand more of how humans work more than before. The current understanding is far from perfect too - I'm sure people not 100 years later will look back to the current one as archaic, or missing something very important, that they now understand commonly. The people back then were not any better or worse, or different, than we are today.