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I wonder how "dating" worked back then? Even before dating-via-Facebook, etc., I think things were different. From watching Happy Days, etc., I conclude that

I wonder how "dating" worked back then? Even before dating-via-Facebook, etc., I think things were different. From watching Happy Days, etc., I conclude that back in the day, people used to "date" multiple people in parallel, and were only monogamous if they were "going steady". But by the late 70s to early 80s (when I was of the age), this wouldn't have been tolerated. You can only be "dating" one person at a time. So maybe the doing-things-as-a-group thing is a work-around that's allowing a person to interact with more potential partners than the one-at-a-time rules would allow.

jcmhn 17y ago
But by the late 70s to early 80s (when I was of the age), this wouldn't have been tolerated. You can only be "dating" one person at a time. My time was a bit later, late 80s to early 90s - but at that time the general rule as I experienced it was that above-average women and exceptionally attractive men could get away with multiple dating partners, but it was off limits to the majority,
powauth 17y ago
But also people are now more: A) more sexual with who they date B) are friends more with the opposite sex. I still recall that when I was in high school, my mother was confused how I had both a girlfriend and several close female friends. Society is definitely different.