Friend of the JG Tom Stringham has a pithy essay on what a working dating culture looks like (it looks like our dating culture, still, some).

Latter-Day Saint Sexual Ethics Work

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Which reminds me.  I love seeing Gentiles gradually reinventing gospel truths about sex and family.  Though rarely do they have the hardihood to go all the way.  That has been happening lately.

There’s Peechy Keenan, Operation Marriage Material 

Then there’s some young edgy people’s manifesto on modern dating I saw a link to.  And there’s an exhaustive article analyzing beauty that I ran across somewhere.

Besides the bit where they work their way into heresy on the Sexual Revolution, all three had some dating advice which I will pass on and save you the trouble of reading the articles yourself.

The best dating advice still is, of course,

Don’t be fat.  Be not fat.  Be someone people like to be around.

But that isn’t all.  A lot here is basic, but reminders never hurt.  None of these advice pieces are the gospel, not the gospel of dating nor the gospel of salvation and eternal life, and shouldn’t be taken as such.  Some of it may be bad advice.

It is interesting to see how much of good dating advice applies after marriage (answer: quite a bit).

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Once a King set out to build a cathedral.  A famous old architect oversaw the construction of a grand edifice of arches and domes in a sound baroque style.  In a master stroke, the architect found a source of very light stone that would weather well for the main construction, but a nearly black stone with a different texture for accents and structural elements.  Even when the building was going up, any one could see how spectacular and lovely the final result would be.

The King and the architect consulted together and employed the most skilled craftsmen to build.

When the work was nearly finished, the king and the architect were taking a tour and noticed one lone gargoyle sticking out sideways from the dome, in a pink stone.

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