DATING And How Did We Get Here (part 3)

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In the early 1900's, birth control pills were viewed as immoral. Families were attempting to portray themselves as decent and ethical. Skip a few years with degrading standards in society and the birth control pill was reintroduced. 

Helped along by women, at the time, experiencing many media influences. Dating by definition had concerns by couples. However, the pill eliminated the concern of getting pregnant after a date. And after years of having the concern taken away, later the thoughts of responsibility also went away. Why feel bad about something if somebody will invent something to solve the problem anyway?

Men experienced the birth control pill much differently. They knew about it, they hoped their date had it, and they didn't think nothing more about it. There was a few years men had no idea the Pandora's Box which would be opened.  They would be at home on a normal day 18 years after having sex on a date and they would hear a knock on the door. On the other side of the door would be an adult informing them they were a father.

Women who could not secure a boyfriend or a husband to provide financial support, now discovered an entire new avenue for their future....avoiding birth control and having children. Fishing for financial support from whatever bites.

DATING And How We Got Here (Part 2)

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In the US, 1938 was the year child labor laws began. A generation of children were allowed to have a childhood for the first time in American history. Those children grew up and became interested in the opposite sex and the majority of that new generation who never worked in a factory did similar things that set a template to what western dating must be to be officially a date.

 A teenage boy, in 1950, didn't know the US census which reported men counted as smaller percent of the population as women outnumbered them by 1.43 million, the first time in US history. Even if those women were 45 and older, that teenage boy wouldn't have known the options he had. So, a teenage boy would ask a teenage girl out on a date, maybe on the telephone (an event the boy would plan and execute and host), and the teenage girl would accept or deny based on her high school standards at the time.

The boy would borrow the family car to help him host the event he planned with this object of his interest, and they would be part of a group at a sporting event or the movies. Later in life, the young man would make the date at a restaurant for dinner. If the object of the young man's interest had sex with him depended on many factors. But, those times created the date as we know in our heads.

With each decade the date mutated to fit the customs of the age and the ability to host a date. Sometimes the code words were rearranged such as car/dinner or car/movie/dinner car/dinner/movie. And then in the 60's and 70's sex played a starring role. Such as dinner/sex or car/sex/dinner or sex and maybe a call on the telephone.

In these modern times, with the introduction of the cellphone, the dating template changes according to times yet again, but the code words must be used for our minds to accept a "date" has happened. Yet, for men, the cellphone and dating sites are expectations to host, even if the only thing he wants is sex. For women, their expectations are of free food and fun, never thinking the host will ask them for anything...especially sex.

As of 2021, the male to female ratio is 98 males to 100 females. There was never a rule that stated the host must always be a male and the guest must always be female.

DATING and How Did We Get Here (Part 1)

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Yes, magazines are a dying medium, but hear me out. How much of the Western world is shaped by entertainment and media? I give you a challenge to walk into a store and find a magazine shelf and notice how there's a general theme. And the theme tends to be "Relationships are out of fashion."

Long gone are the hay days of COSMOPOLITAN, MARIE CLAIRE, and GLAMOUR, where random women could read teaser articles concerning their marriage or helping their sex life. Instead, the magazine rack has been invaded by "dentist office" reading material.

In 2016 TikTok was introduced to America, however in 2023, 87% of adults admitted to reading a magazine in the last six months. The internet played a part in eliminating what those $6 dollar pieces of paper did in society...keep men and women capable of relating.

Sure, those articles had lies and writers simply made things up. But, it told men and women to, at least, try to stay together.

In 2012, for China the divorce rate have increased higher then the marriage rate, and peaked at 4.71 million couples in 2019 . Aside for cultural differences that China is governed by, their entertainment medium has Western influence going back to 1988.Yet China only introduced the concept of divorce in 1950.

Since the highest divorce rate is in The Maldives, let's look at their most popular entertainment magazines. It's travel publications. Nothing tells couples more it's time to break up than showing pictures of where they could be in life without another person bringing them down.

Sure, maybe it's all a conspiracy theory....or is it?