the culture, and specifically the media, has changed a lot. we've had like a high profile sex scandal every month since then. "the rich and powerful are all drug addicted sex creeps!" -- the story was old news before it even broke.

also the 90s was sort of the peak of evangelical Christianity's cultural power. you'll recall that John F. Kennedy was a well known womanizer and it hardly raised an eyebrow. Attitudes reversed sharply during the Carter administration and by the Reagan years, obscenity on television was an issue that the "moral majority" were actually voting on. Now that militant bloc of Concerned Parents has fizzled out into an unruly mob of divorcees and childless tradcaths who worship a golfer real estate agent who makes fun of them in his speeches and doesn't go to church, and who began his campaign with a voice recording where he claimed to enjoy sexual assault.