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People in the 60s didn't seem particularly freaked by grown men expressing desire for teens...even though they did have a lot of anxiety over teenage sexuality, female sexuality, and premarital sex.

So singing about a vibrator was considered much more taboo than singing about being interested in a young teenager.

Most people nowadays would take sex and drug references in a pop song as completely banal, but then Donovan says he's just mad about a fourteen year old, and you really realize how much values have changed.

This guy in 1966 can be straight-up singing about being into a kid, but he has to be cagey when mentioning a vibrator, and the general public figured he was secretly trying to tell them to smoke banana peels.

Even if you're very sexually naive, smoking bananas sounds like a euphemism for sucking dick, tho.

"Mellow Yellow," on the other hand, mentions sex toys in such an casual manner that everyone thought the song's real, hidden meaning was about drugs

The 60s were a weird time because "Plastic Fantastic Lover" is apparently about...a color TV set

The existence of a wife guy implies the existence of an anti-wife guy. A guy militantly opposed to marriage to women entirely.

This anti-wife guy is, if course, purely hypothetical

The thing about my job is, I can barely even talk about it, because I work in computer security, and even if I could explain the technical parts in an entertaining and concise way at a dinner party, I have an NDA.