Sexuality
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  • Recap:
    • Colonial period: family centered courtship with friendship as basis for marriage
    • 1800's: Calling system with romantic love as basis for marriage


  • 1900's: Invention of dating
    • Industrialization, schooling, transportation creates need & context for dating
    • Changed:
      • generational control
      • women controlled to men controlled
        • private to public sphere
        • male initiated
      • expensive
      • increased privacy & independence


  • 1920's-WWII: Promiscuous popularity
    • rating & dating system
    • handholding & kissing passe


  • WWII: Scarcity


  • Post-War:
    • Scarcity: diverse expectations of men & women
    • Formal dating with strict enforcement of sex roles
    • Going steady & early marriage
    • Sexuality controlled by limiting privacy
      • double standards of 'tramps' and 'good girls'


  • 1960's - 1980's
    • Gender roles in flux
    • Serial monogomy & late marriage
    • Change in sexual norms
      • intercourse acceptable if you're 'in love'


  • Big picture: Why has unmarried pregnancy increased?
    • Secular trend: longer period of fertility
    • Early dating & serial monogomy
    • Norms that intercourse is acceptable within a loving, monogomous relationship
    • Late marriage
    • Cumulative contraceptive failure