Sexual offences act 1967, Equality act 2010, Same sex marriage act 2013. Is the fear. Citizens 100 years ago would probably be fearful of those acts coming to fruition, nothing more nothing less.
Maybe you would have been better off living a 100 years ago, some of your mindset still appears to be there, hence maybe the reason you post some of the stuff you do. The laws you speak of were passed to allow civilisation to move on into modern times and hopefully improve and better the lives of everyone, not just some people who’s mindset and a lot of it based on religion had shaped the unfair unjust society that had gone before.