Love of Valentine Day

In the article “Historically Incorrect Canooding” by Stephanie Coontz talks about how the marriages we see nowadays is all getting divorced and worst but is the day we supposed to be romantic meant a lot of less than it does today, before. The valentine day holiday was made to decrease the sexual passion.” No one believed that falling in love was great and glorying thing that should lead to marriage.”  Love, passion, marriage was not an equal match back in the 1800’s; actually, valentine day was another holiday which was a festival honored to Juno “the Roman goddess of love and marriage." The church fathers would rather the holiday become a festival of Lupercalia, in which the men will draw a name from a jar and the woman they pick will be there sex partner for the rest of the year. The legend enforced the rule that the Roman soldiers will fight better if they didn’t have family ties. Pope Gregory the Great wrote that while marriage was not technically sinful, the “carnal pleasure” that husband and wife derived from sex “cannot under any circumstances be without blame.” This quote means the wife a husband are not allowed to enjoy they sex they receive from each other. That should be true if you’re really in love, but back then your parents chose who you could marry. It was an unfair exchange. In conclusion, I think the 1800 was all an unfair time, people should have been controlled like that, they should have had a say so. If my parents had to choose who I could marry, I would get married at all, you should be with someone you love not how by force.