Martin King Whyte, Does Dating Work? in Society (Mar.-Apr. 1992), Rutgers-The State Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.

The history of courtship in America begins with the Puritans (enough said), proceeds to the modest sexual revolution of the 18th century and the counter-revolution of the 19th, and then arrives, around the turn of the century, at the familiar practice called "dating." According to University of Michigan sociologist Martin King Whyte, however, all those centuries of ro- m...