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True but to a certain degree a lot of this was family pressure on girls (largely of Asian extraction but not all) who'd had an all-consuming thrust towards academic/professional achievement till mid twenties. Then got hit with the 'where grandkids' from their parents who'd been incredibly antipathic towards any dating in the meantime. My personal filters/location probably meant I ran into more of this type than most people would, but it was pretty striking how many long-term single women there are who kinda fit into this mold. Also there's likely a plethora of men in the same boat, undeniably.
I'm not saying they had to slut it up in college.
A lot of "how to fix your dating" advice for men is basically "you didn't have enough low-stakes interactions with women, here's how to speed-level your game". Socializing in mixed groups without constant adult supervision, but without salacious activities either, should fix it.
This would seem to imply that the era before mixed gender schooling was common produced a lot of socially maladjusted men and women. It doesn't seem to me that the Victorian era had that reputation.
Victorian era had a different approach to gender relations altogether.
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The Victorian era in the English-speaking world has a reputation for bad sexual hangups. It is the period where Americans started calling cocks roosters in case they were mistaken for the male organ (that happened) and put skirts on piano legs so they weren't sexually alluring (that probably didn't). It is the era where British wives were encouraged to "give little, give seldom, and give grudgingly" (the advice manual is real, but was intended as satire - it just isn't clear what it was a satire of) and when the French said that BDSM was "la vice anglaise" and insinuated that the British were so sexually repressed that we couldn't enjoy vanilla sex.
I have no idea how well-deserved this reputation was, but it definitely exists. "Copy Victorian strategies for socialising the sexes with each other" is going to get laughed out of court as a result.
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