I've noticed in a lot of classical literature that if a young woman has a premarital relationship with someone and it doesn't lead to marriage, there is the idea that she has permanently lost her honor and that she's a disgrace to the whole family, and that even her sisters if she has them, won't be able to get married because no one would ever think of getting married to a woman from "such a family".
Anyway, if a woman was with someone before marriage, she should better get married to that guy, or else...
When exactly did this stop being the case in our society? Has sexual revolution changed this "overnight", or it was a more gradual process?
How did we get from there, to today's society in which it's considered normal to have a couple of boyfriends / girlfriends before one gets married?
