The History of Dating

To many of us it seems as though dating has always been around since the beginning of time since the concept of dating is so frequently used. According to this website About Dating "dating is an invention of the 20th century. Before dating, the society knew only about courtship. After 1920 dating meant, as it means today, an informal male-female interaction with no specific commitment. No rules imposed by the community, but by the peer- group. Along with the emancipation of women, dating started to become an aspect of the culture, but also a fact connected to the need for money, because going out meant spending money. The most popular dating activities were dancing and movies. In the early 1950s, dating started to begin earlier, in the junior high school and going steady became popular, bringing new rituals, the exchange of telephone calls and dates each week, together with a greater sexual intimacy. Today dating is frequently followed by cohabitation and almost half of the young people live together at some point before the age of 30."


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