Yes, it was a different world entirely. I often think that women of my generation lived our earlier lives in a rare "golden age." Not that it was really a golden age by objective standards, just that it was so much better than the misogynistic, porn-soaked, abusive shit show that you younger women face today.

I started having sexual encounters with boys when I was 13 in 1967. These encounters consisted of hours-long sessions of "making out" (kissing progressing to "French kissing"), "petting" or "feeling up," frottage & eventually the boys sticking their hands in my pants & fingering my clit until I came.

I engaged in this sort of activity for several years without any one of my nice, kind, decent, respectful BFs ever putting my hand on his dick, exposing his dick to me, asking me to give him a hand job or blow job, pressuring me to have PIV, or demanding or encouraging me to disrobe.

I didn't have PIV until I was 16, & I did so with a boy/young man 18 months older whom I loved & who loved me & who treated me like a goddess (actually too much so). We didn't get involved until I was 15, but he says he instantly fell in love with me the first time he saw me when he was 13/14 & I was 12. (I know this because now that I've entered the stage of life where my principal orientation is "retrosexual," he & I have been in close contact & talking a lot about what happened between us many decades ago.)

I don't recall any of the men that I & my same-age friends dated & married asking us to give them blow jobs until the mid-late 1980s - & when they did ask back then, they didn't demand. In the 80s & 90s, males were grateful to get blow jobs from women. And the vast majority of "regular" het guys back then most certainly did not expect women to let them penetrate us anally. The very idea was outside the Overton window.

As to the claim that women's sexual

pleasure is from being the “target,” the “prize,” the figure of maximum desire. That IS their sexual pleasure.

I can only say that I have often experienced the pleasure of being the target, prize & figure of another person's sexual desire, but that is not the sole or main source of my or other women's pleasure. Rather, it's incidental. The pleasure of being desired by another person is small potatoes compared to the sexual pleasure that comes [sic,LOL] from the female ability to orgasm.

Also, although I am not an overt sexual aggressor, from my early teens on I often set my sights on a particular boy or man who caught my fancy & I pursued him. Usually with success.

I've also been in a relationship where I had more of a desire for sex than my male partner did.

But in general, reducing all sexual encounters to dom & sub doesn't jibe with my own experience or the reality of most people I know. Most het women who've felt free to express themselves sexually have enjoyed straddling men in the "on top" position as much as being fucked missionary or doggie style.