Comment Re:What's love got to do, got to do with it? (Score 1) 496
What you are saying is true but not for all the classes. The lower classes has had more freedom when it came to love and marrige. The middle classes and up has never made up an majoirty of the population in a country.
On the other hand the lower classes didn't always marry and instead "chose" to "live in sin" due to the costs related to getting married. Getting married might have been what one should do but the part of society that constituted the lower classes can hardly have raised an eyebrow regarding two persons living together without being married.
Not only is history written by the winner, it's also written by the rich.