Freedom Of Choice Has Always Been Relative

What was the difference between english post war rationing,
1945-57 and peace time consumer choice, 1964-the present day?
One measure is how much minor sexual deviancy was material
for blackmail. Alan Turing is now as famous for poisoning himself
after being arrested for the crime of  'indecent exposure' in 1951,
as he was obscure back then as a mathematican.
Back then anyone who sought life beyond the (f)utility of marriage
would be unwillingly hoisted aloft on their nightmares.
The money from entrapment for extramarital 'gay sex'
that could supplement a weekly ration would make blackmail
seem both moral and profitable.
Which young man would not pay to hide their shame?
Young women paid in life and trauma as much as money
for a backstreet abortion. The 1970's were an advance,
marriage was still seen to be utilitarian, and with increased wealth
blackmail was no longer for money. Since married men who drank
to escape the sense of (f)utility secretly thought 'gay sex isn't adultery'
then coralling the weak young men into giving them oral sex was justified.
I remember well the immurement of my sexuality within the walls
of public toilets, though I will never understood the secrecy I was coerced by.
The peace time choice of freedom still comes from the words
that classify us, unawares, but let us not get into how advertisers
slice and dice us into units for their consumption, and then call it choice.