How is AO a Christian thing?
Way back in the 10th century and earlier, a system called Fudalism came up. It was strongly based on divine providence, meaning that those at the top got there because god wanted them to be there.
Now, these people had bloodlines and they had to keep their bloodlines pure for one very important reason: LAND!
You had to KNOW who your land was going too, and no one wanted to give their land to a kid fathered by some other berk. And so, having a virgin wife was the best safeguard, and so boinking before marrige was rapidly made a sin by the Church.
We don't treat women like property anymore, we are not tied to land...and yet we cling to marrige and outdated, pointless, demeaning, sexist traditions...why?
Get married if you want, but don't look down on those that choose not too. Don't deny yourself pleasure just because some sexist prigs back in Europe, centuries ago, decided that women's only value was in spitting out babies (more specifically, your babies.)
Now, modern marrige is actually quite different from what past marriages were. Its no longer arranged, men can't LEGALLY RAPE THEIR WIVES, and the marriages can be dissolved if people are not happy with them.
Also, we live a great deal longer than they used too back then (40 used to be OLD. Now, its the halfway point)...that's changed how relationships work, definitely.
Also, we get married later in life than we used too!
Marriages were usually around 24 for men and 13 or 14 for the girls.
Oh, and men didn't need to stay virgins either. Only the girls. Cause, well, it didn't matter how many bastards the men sired, only the women cause women were only good for making babies.
God the past really sucked...
