What can you say about our present day morality?

It really depends on what you mean by "morality." It also depends on which group of people you ask. For example, If you ask people who are in their 70s or 80s, they may say society was more moral in the past, when they were growing up. If you ask religiously conservative people, you may find they believe this country is becoming more immoral every day because society has become more tolerant of divorce, gay marriage, Birth Control, etc. If you ask college students, they may say things are fine and they are glad the country is becoming more tolerant. I could go on. My point is that in every generation, there have been complaints about the lack of morality. I am a media historian, and I can show you newspaper articles from 150 years ago when people were complaining that society wasn't moral. In fact, we have evidence from Bible times that there were complaints about stealing, lying, adultery, etc.

In other Words, this is really nothing new. What's different is that today, we probably notice the bad behavior more because we have 24 hour cable TV, internet gossip websites, tabloids, and endless TV programs about scandals. But these do not represent the norm: they represent an attempt to get ratings; sex and scandal sell, and while people complain about all the violence and sexual misbehavior, they seem to be fascinated by it, especially when it involves celebrities or politicians.

So for me, the answer to your question is that society really is not any more immoral than it was in the past; it just seems that way because we have more media outlets that call our attention to the bad behavior. Personally, I think morality is not just about sexual behaviors-- it also involves how you treat other people: whether you act ethically, whether you show compassion and forgiveness-- as opposed to whether you are contemptuous or judgmental. I can say that our present day morality, contrary to outraged Talk Shows and angry opinion columns, is no worse than it was in the mythical "good old days." There have always been some people who acted immorally; there have always been hypocrites who judged others and yet did the same things themselves. But I am actually quite hopeful about society. We have our faults, but most of us try to do the right thing, and many of us even succeed.