Historically Incorrect Canoodling

In the article, " Historically Incorrect Canoodling" reporter, Stephanie Coontz talks about how people are mistaking the meaning of Valentines Day from the original meanings created by the Pulp.

Some people believe that couples, and noncouples are just having unmeaningful sex and are are not getting married because they love one another.The article states, " Valentine's Day was originally created by the Roman Catholic Church as a limit on sexual passion." So basically back in the day, like in the 1900's , Valentine's Day was not a day for people to show their love for one another, it was a day for the complete opposite.

I think that Valentine's Day should be for people to go all out of their ways to make the person they love feel special. A day full of happiness and joy. Not a day for people to not love one another.

"For the church , the message of Valentine's Day was that while marriage had a place in society, although not the highest place, romance had place in marriage". Basically love was not the main reason for people to get married. They would just get married for the fun of it, not because they ha true love for their partner. One top of not having love for your wife, if you had sex with your partner that was a sin. Back then sex was only use for making babies that's all, while having sex with your partner you could not enjoy it.

I think that the meaning of Valentine's Day change from how it was back in the days, because over the year people begun to gain feelings for the person they was with, or the person they ha children with.