Recent surveys reveal a startling trend: nearly six out of 10 couples forgo physical intimacy on their wedding night, missing ...

Marriage, as a social institution, has undergone numerous transformations across the world, and India is no exception. In ...

A tutor had considerable powers, and could force the woman out of one marriage and into another ... with the sex manuals of Elephantis. In Ancient Rome as in Victorian England, virtuous restraint ...

Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. But back then, marriage had little to do with love or with ...

Like all women of their time, Asellina and Zmyrina could not vote. But they found influence in their own ways. Asellina owned ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

THE learned and ingenious author of “Primitive Marriage” has in this volume republished that excellent work, appending to it his paper on “Kinship in Ancient Greece,” which originally ...

Through his marriage on his inauguration to the goddess ... "Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland," says Kelly. "Cutting them would have made him incapable ...