# In olden days, how common was it for people to enter marriage with literally no clue what sex was?

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**Created:** [February 26, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-olden-days-how-common-was-it-for-people-to-enter-marriage-with-literally-no-clue-what-sex-was/980395 "2023-02-26T13:22:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-olden-days-how-common-was-it-for-people-to-enter-marriage-with-literally-no-clue-what-sex-was/980395/80 "2023-02-28T00:33:52Z")

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And we have no [really clear answer to the point of that story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023)

Quite funny to me that all I did was google “Doc Daneeka newlyweds” and not only was the top search result the SDMB, but it was a thread I started (and I’d forgotten I’d done so).

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