<p>Statistically, lots of us are having premarital sex while we’re married ('cause it’s likely we’ll get married again. ;))</p>
<p>“In colonial times, there was a practice known as bundling. People lived with their birth families until they were married, so dates conisted of aa guy calling on a girl at her house. In wintertime, it was often impractical for the guy to go home at night, so he stayed over.”</p>
<p>Actually, the Puritans pretty much REQUIRED premarital sex, and pregnancy. Pregnancy was a sign that the marriage should go on, as it was to be blessed by God. Roughly two-thirds of the Puritan women in New England were pregnant prior to marriage.</p>
<p>Great new book by Stephanie Coontz (who teaches at Evergreen, author of “The Way We Never Were” - on the American nostalgia trip): <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-History-Obedience-Intimacy-Conquered/dp/067003407X/sr=8-3/qid=1167340958/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-7616674-8859004?ie=UTF8&s=books[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-History-Obedience-Intimacy-Conquered/dp/067003407X/sr=8-3/qid=1167340958/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-7616674-8859004?ie=UTF8&s=books</a></p>