>>790497>Romantic love was alot more discriminatory before May 1968 Men were rejected for not being in a prestigious families/universities Women were divorced so that men could find a sugar baby.This wasn't true in working class families. Families and traditional communities tended to operate as a system of support outside capitalism, may 68 put an end to this, marking the advance of capitalism in the last remnant of the previous order.
>Besides, the “liberalization “ of love you’re referring to was a boomer fad. It went out of fashion by the Reagan eraNot really, just look at how widely avaible and popular porn, casual sex, dating apps are. The "puriteen" stuff is overstated, never has the youth watch so much pornography, the decline in sexual relationships is because of the decline in relations in general. If anything, this is another step in the liberalisations of relationships as now tech compagnies even controls the way people meet each other.
I'm not arguing that people weren't vain before, but dating apps has institutionalised it, they've promoted it, and they've made it the sole criteria in those apps.
I've met plenty of people who were ugly, short, and still managed to get a similarly wealthy girlfriend or boyfriend. But this can't happen online.
I don't think traditional values were perfect, but we live in a era where individualism, selfishness and capitalism is promoted as moral, by both the cultural right and left. they just appeal to women and men differently.