How Has Dating Changed In The 50's

When you think about dating, you think back to the 50’s. The dates at the beach, that we see iconic pictures of everywhere, or the milkshake shack dates, where a couple shares a milkshake with two straws. Or the letterman jackets that the boy gave the girl when she got a little chilly on the summer night. It is all very “Grease” and “Rebel without a cause”. Compared to dating movies like today such as “Friends with benefits” and “Easy A”. All of this shows how much the definition of “Dating” has changed over the last 60 or so years. Dating today is very impersonal, sexually based, and biased. We have noticed this all of our lives, just not necessarily recognized it. Dating today compared to how it was in the 50’s is very impersonal. In the 50’s the boy and girl usually knew each other fairly well before the boy would even ask the girl out on a date. Today people go up to complete strangers, and ask for their phone numbers, and get set up on “Blind dates”. The whole thing is so impersonal. This entire generation lives its lives behind a phone, even the romantic aspect of it. In the 50’s a boy would pick a girl up for the date at her home, and meet her family first. Today most “Couples” meet online and talk over the phone before even meeting in

They were both teenagers in the 50’s, and always talked about how much my older sisters dating didn’t make sense to them. Now looking at it I understand what they meant completely. Today we have a stage that’s not considered dating, but considered something, called “Talking”. Its where you’re basically dating that person, but just not calling it that. In the 50’s people dated with a point; to get married. People would “go steady” or exclusively date, and then get into “courtships” which says, I want to marry you, but not yet. Versus today, where people date to have sex and move on. It’s a complete