Hugh Hefner's Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage

Marriage, a History: How love Conquered Marriage was a book that went into so much depth and research. This information is very important to everyone, especially those with more traditional ideals. Unlike most books, the author goes through the years of marriage history. She leaves nothing out and nothing left behind. She pulls in every tradition, thought, view, and conflict on marriage that has existed, even outside of America. She paints a good picture of the entirety of marriage, not just how one country created it, viewed it, and changed it. The importance of this piece of work is that it can change minds and help people understand where their views and traditions came from and why. Many people might just be surprised of how new todays

They didn’t see it as an identifier though. It was only until they felt the need to work for financial reason, or being single, or even because they enjoyed it that women identified with being a worker. Sex came along with marriage, but this hasn’t always been true. At the beginning sex was only an initiation into marriage. Women were seen as not having sexuality and men were supposed to control their sexual urges. Those who turned to prostitution did so to be free and financially stable. Men who turned to them only wanted to fix their urges, but often felt terrible about it. When Hugh Hefner joined the sexual revolution, he created Playboy, a way for men to enjoy women, to release urges, without getting one pregnant or resorting to prostitution. The sexual revolution opened doors for the sexes because promiscuity and premarital sex was beginning to happen. Also, there was the invention of birth control that allowed for safer sex. It was no longer frowned upon to be sexual. Today, there is some frowning upon for prostitutes, premarital sex (especially for religions), excessive PDA. What is not frowned upon as much is porn, women’s sexuality, and the sexuality viewing of the media. The media knows and promotes that sex sells. It shows music videos with girls twerking,

I disagree with the point that there was a shift from provider to protector. I believe that the men where always the provider for the most part, but so were women. Women were not seen as a provider by many, but they were. These relationships relied upon each other for survival. The man provided food in the early beginning of time and then provided money when jobs were created. The women would pick berries, fruits, and cook whatever the man brought home in the beginning and then as jobs became available, women did the housework or brought home money as well. All marriages have to be a mutual agreement for life, even thru the struggles. You can’t have one without the other. Therefore, the term protector is not needed. All along, it was really just providing for one another for survival. I also disagree with the fact that once women entered the workforce they denied enjoying it and calling it “work”. Women long before this time period where struggling for rights and freedoms. Something as simple as working to bring in money and materials for your home and family had to mean more to them then just something needed to be done. If you were to ask women today, many would love to tell you about their job and their journey getting there. Our jobs make up a part of our identity. If women truly were playing down the idea and label of work, it had to be out of fear of men. Men were superior to them