Historically Incorrect Canoodling

The article "Historically Incorrect Canoodling" is about how Valentine's day was celebrated differently back in the old day. In the article it says, " Such expectations of married bliss would have horrified the people who invented Valentine's Day- and confused couples steeped in the rules of traditional courtship in the West before the 1800's."


' Valentine's Day was originally created by the Roman Catholic church as a limit on sexual passion.' People almost never believed that falling in love was a great and glorious thing that should lead to marriage, or that marriage was a place to achieve sexual fulfillment. The article states, " Valentine was a Christan priest , martyred in the third century. Some legend says he was executed for refusing to follow a rule againstconducting marriages for Roman soldiers... etc. In one account, Valentine feel in love with his jailor's daughter and wrote her a poignant goodbye letter signed "from your Valentine."


'Christan support for married love is hard to find in the first 1,500 years of church history. As one 12th-century authority wrote, no one "dissaproves" when "a gentle and honest sentiment" softens the bonds of a marriage, but "it is not thr role of marriage to inspire such feeling." Now and days most young people base Valentine's Day off of sexual activity. The article says, "Most young people, then as now, ignored such warnings about the pitfalls of sex and love."


I think that people nowadays do celebrate Valentine's day the wrong way. I feel that Valentine's Day should be celebrated by love and affection for each other. If shouldnt be based on sexual activity. Some people do need to look at the back ground for Valentine's Day because as you read the article you can see that Valentine's Day was actually "when the church declared Feb. 14 St. Valentine's feast day in 498 A.D., it was not trying to celebrate romance." "The Church wanted to replace the existing holiday, a festival honoring Juno, the Roman goddes of love and marriage."

On this past Valentine's Day i didn't really do much. People wished me a happy Valentine's Day and i spent the day with my family. We watched tv and just joked around. Valentine's Day does not have to be based on spending time with a partner or a lover it can be based on many different ways and spent many different way also. My question is besides Mr.Valentine being executed on that day, what made the day so special?