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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is my favorite fiction book.  Though written a long time ago it is  still referred to often.  I ran across this article on Tim Challies blog where the author was comparing Austen's age to our current hook-up, pornified culture.  The whole article is good and worth a read but I  especially liked the end:

"Admittedly, Austen’s world is idealized, yet consider this: who would you prefer your daughter to bring home? 1) a young man whose sexual imagination has been formed by Jane Austen along with Homer, Virgil, The Song of Solomon, Dante, and Shakespeare or 2) a young man who has spent the last ten years of his life fantasizing about women whose images he has objectified and consumed through pornography? Who will make a better husband? A better lover? A better father? That so many of our young men are being shaped by pornography does not bode well for our young ladies or for our society as a whole. If we are witnessing the passing of the gentlemen, there is much to lament. Although the path is difficult and the outcome uncertain, perhaps it’s time for the gentleman to stage a comeback."