On: Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

[lc9er]

It has also become almost prohibitively expensive to raise children (in the US).

[nicoburns → lc9er]

Was it not always prohibitively expensive to raise children? Seems to me that the main thing that has changed is the invention of (modern) contraception, making not having children but still having sex an option in a way that it wasn't in the past.