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Sometimes we wonder if everyone actually participated in the Courtship process, or was it only people who lived in country estates? Here is a description of courtship among the working classes, from Moira Weigel’s book Labor of Love. The son of a rabbi, Samuel Chotzinoff came with his family from Vitebsk, Russia, to New YorkContinue reading “Courtship, Circa 1910”

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016), by Moira Weigel, is a nice, short book about the history of “dating,” or, if you like, the replacement of Traditional Courtship, beginning around 1890 but really getting going after 1920. This book could have gone wrong in many ways. One of the reviews calls it “aContinue reading “Labor of Love (2016), by Moira Weigel”

I thought I would add a comment to the recent post at SigmaFrame regarding concerns among many Christian men (virgins or nearly so) as to whether they can achieve sexual “compatibility” with their future wife, without giving it a try beforehand. Here is a quote from that post, from a young man with some concerns:Continue reading “Sexual Compatibility”

You wouldn’t think there would be any need to write a Guide to Sex. All the animals do it, without having to read about it beforehand. But, it seems that a lot of men today don’t know how to do it, or at least, how to do it well enough. I went to a privateContinue reading “Men’s Guide To Sex”

I was reading in the comments of a YouTube video (most of the best material is there) about a man who tried imitating the manner of the Sexy Alpha guys in his office, without actually doing anything. He was married with children, and never bothered to interact with any women beyond “hello.” He just decidedContinue reading “Get Sexy”

A day in the life of an upper-middle-class young mother and her baby, in Tokyo. Most young Japanese moms don’t wear kimono when out about town. But, I wish they did. (This woman spent five years as a Geisha apprentice, and is definitely a Level 5 Housewife when it comes to traditional clothing.) If youContinue reading “This is the Ugly Face of Oppression”

In the scheme I am drawing out here, which is the scheme that was used for centuries before 1900 or so, women get married young, and they have children. It tended to happen, in the era before contraception. But, shouldn’t a woman have children during her period of peak fertility? Nature lines up a woman’sContinue reading “Young Mothers”

In the past, social dancing was a major means by which young people would meet each other. Boys and girls together would often go to dance school to practice. I was in Las Vegas and went to a dance club recently, just to look around. I happened to have a free ticket, which cost $23Continue reading “Social Dancing”

In Traditional Courtship, there are no boyfriends. That is a new invention of “dating.” It seems that there are a number of women with a “no sex before marriage” approach that nevertheless have boyfriends. This is not Traditional Courtship, it is “dating” arrested at the 13-year-old level. A woman has suitors; perhaps, preferred suitors; aContinue reading “No Boyfriends”

Lori Alexander of The Transformed Wife is a good example of the “submissive” wife. Go there for lots of detail. But, I want to summarize basic principles. The word “submit” or “submissive,” in the Bible when referring to wives, is derived from a Greek word, that is in turn derived from a Latin Roman termContinue reading “Submissive Wives”