/lit/ - Literature

>>6346469
>because these people are already getting left by the wayside in any arrangement barring Arranged Marriages

Good thing for them that most marriages back then were arranged marriages. And guess what, they were healthier and more loving than modern marriages which fall apart after seven years.

>If you want to be desired by the opposite sex, you must first become desirable.

What you are basically saying is that to become "desirable" you must become another person, completely denying who you truly are, changing your entire personality, traits and even desires. How can't you see how humiliating this is?

>>6241150
>I believe 1 in 2 marriages have always been poor.

Again, you can't prove that. You are just projecting modern day shitty marriages into the past.