c. "Falling in love" is a natural human emotion. Therefore, romantic love has existed in all societies at all times.

Although sexual attraction may be universal (that is, present in all human societies), this is not the same as "love".

In many societies, for example, people do not marry for love. In Indian society, Hindu’s, for example, practice a system of arranged marriages where the marriage partners may know little or nothing about each other prior to their marriage. Some religious sects (the Unification Church, for example) arrange marriages for their members simply by telling the prospective partners who they will marry.

• In addition, in our society the idea of "romantic love" is relatively recent.  According to Philip Aries ("Centuries of Childhood", 1963), people in the past  married for economic reasons (to protect their wealth and power or to create families that could work together on the land).
  

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