Why Is Chivalry Alive

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Is chivalry dead? Chivalry is a code of rules established sometime in the 12th century, most likely by a King, maybe even Charlemagne. For many years knights lived by this code, and they upheld it to the death. Even in the Pre-Antebellum period of the southern United States chivalry was alive and well. The question is, “Is chivalry alive or dead in Today’s world?” While I do not necessarily believe that chivalry as a whole is dead, I do believe it’s slowly dying out. One tenant of chivalry, respect for women, is however completely dead. According to Time.com “About 44% of students in the 2000s reported having had sex with a “casual date or pickup,”compared with 35% in the 1980s and ’90s — and 68% reported having had sex with a “friend” in