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==83:2. COURTSHIP AND BETROTHAL==

==83:2. COURTSHIP AND BETROTHAL==

83:2.1 [[Primitive]] marriages were always [[planned]] by the [[parents]] of the boy and girl. The [[transition]] [[stage]] between this [[custom]] and the times of [[free]] [[choosing]] was occupied by the marriage [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker broker] or [[professional]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking matchmaker[. These matchmakers were at first the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber barbers]; later, the [[priests]]. Marriage was originally a [[group]] affair; then a [[family]] matter; only recently has it become an [[individual]] [[adventure]].

83:2.1 [[Primitive]] marriages were always [[planned]] by the [[parents]] of the boy and girl. The [[transition]] [[stage]] between this [[custom]] and the times of [[free]] [[choosing]] was occupied by the marriage [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker broker] or [[professional]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking matchmaker]. These matchmakers were at first the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber barbers]; later, the [[priests]]. Marriage was originally a [[group]] affair; then a [[family]] matter; only recently has it become an [[individual]] [[adventure]].

83:2.2 [[Coercion]], not [[attraction]], was the approach to [[primitive]] marriage. In early times [[woman]] had no [[sex]] aloofness, only sex inferiority as inculcated by the [[mores]]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft raiding] preceded [[trading]], so marriage by capture preceded marriage by [[contract]]. Some [[women]] would connive at capture in order to [[escape]] the [[domination]] of the older men of their [[tribe]]; they preferred to fall into the hands of men of their own age from another [[tribe]]. This pseudo [[elopement]] was the [[transition]] [[stage]] between capture by [[force]] and subsequent [[courtship]] by [[charming]].

83:2.2 [[Coercion]], not [[attraction]], was the approach to [[primitive]] marriage. In early times [[woman]] had no [[sex]] aloofness, only sex inferiority as inculcated by the [[mores]]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft raiding] preceded [[trading]], so marriage by capture preceded marriage by [[contract]]. Some [[women]] would connive at capture in order to [[escape]] the [[domination]] of the older men of their [[tribe]]; they preferred to fall into the hands of men of their own age from another [[tribe]]. This pseudo [[elopement]] was the [[transition]] [[stage]] between capture by [[force]] and subsequent [[courtship]] by [[charming]].