More than a hundred years ago, when the telephone was introduced, there was some hand-wringing over the social dangers that this new technology posed: increased sexual aggression and damaged human relationships. ?It was going to bring down our society,? said Dr. Megan Moreno, a specialist in adolescent medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Men would be calling women and making lascivious comments, and women would be so vulnerable, and we?d never have civilized conversations again.?
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