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To: ansel12

This seems to me to be a very jaded view of male-female relationships.

It seems to me that it is from a very narrow point of view as well.


120 posted on 05/11/2010 1:54:11 PM PDT by Running On Empty ((The three sorriest words: "It's too late"))
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To: Running On Empty

It isn’t jaded, and rather than narrow, it is looking at the history of courting rather than the narrow view of the last 40 years only.

What do you think drove courting and dating methods for centuries, and why do you think it changed so much in the 1970s?

What could return things to what they were before the 70s?

Making sex a one way street for men again, like it was throughout history, that would make the females come up with a new way to maintain equilibrium, my guess is that they would revert back to the old ways of restraint, and control over their sexual favors.


124 posted on 05/11/2010 2:09:31 PM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: Running On Empty; ansel12
Do you read the magazine “First Things”? It pretty much confirms what ansell2 is saying.

Contraception made sex very cheap for men and women, but left the ultimate choice for reproduction with women. Many women use this as a way to get money, control, or just fit in (my wife teaches high school, and the latter is a big factor).
What is interesting is the article talks of the resulting cost to marriage. It leaves the pool of marriable men rather small for most women, while the dating or hook up pool is very large. And most of the time, the two pools don't over lap.

It is the article “Bitter Pill”.
http://www.firstthings.com/

128 posted on 05/11/2010 6:20:31 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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