Girling Up by Mayim Bialik

Author:Mayim Bialik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2017-04-12T09:13:02+00:00

Dating

Now that we understand a little bit better what attraction is and what it does to our bodies and brains, let’s talk about what happens after we are attracted to someone. In most cultures, the next step after attraction is dating, which means different things to different people and also varies a lot depending on where you live or where your family is from.

Dating generally means spending concentrated time with someone we are attracted to, but for most of human history, romantic love or being attracted to someone was not a requirement for dating. I know that must sound strange, but parents used to set their kids up with a mate for life based on arrangements between the families. Sometimes marriages were basically business agreements between two fathers regarding their kids. Women were essentially treated as property, and they usually didn’t get a vote as to who they would marry. There are many communities in the world where arranged marriage is still the way couples get together. In addition, for much of human history, men were allowed to have more than one wife, and there are still places where men can have more than one wife, such as parts of the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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