you know the really weird thing is... ok, everyone used to be prudes back then. Publicly. Perhaps people might have swore less, or were more polite to people, and maybe honestly they sinned less than we do now.
But we know everyone masturbated. Everyone. That must have really fucked with everyones psyches back then. Priests were doing it, victorian gentlemen in tophats were doing it, proper prim ladies were doing it after a stroll down a cobblestone street. Maybe that's why everyone was going to church every week, had to re-up on the forgiveness.
Must have been really weird for all of society to shun something while at the same time everyone was simultaneously doing that very act.