{"id":20648,"date":"2011-02-13T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2013-11-14T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:12:56","slug":"valentines-day-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/13\/valentines-day-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Americans began celebrating Valentine’s Day in the early 1700s, it wasn’t until the 1840s that it became a commercial holiday complete with mass-produced Valentine’s-themed goods.<\/p>\n

Greeting cards, candy, flowers, and jewelry are Valentine’s-Day-Approved gifts and are among the most frequently gifted items (along with stuffed animals and perfume\/cologne):<\/p>\n

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Contrary to stereotypes, the majority of men say they would love to receive flowers for Valentine’s Day:<\/p>\n

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Alas, 21% of them have never been so blessed:<\/p>\n

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This may upset primarily the young:<\/p>\n

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But, of course, they have the greatest chance of one day having their dreams come true.<\/p>\n

What I’m saying is:\u00a0 “Go ahead! Buy your man some daisies!”<\/p>\n

For more on Valentine’s Day, visit this fun graphic<\/a> (via Chart Porn<\/a>).<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Americans began celebrating Valentine’s Day in the early 1700s, it wasn’t until the 1840s that it became a commercial holiday complete with mass-produced Valentine’s-themed goods. Greeting cards, candy, flowers, and jewelry are Valentine’s-Day-Approved gifts and are among the most frequently gifted items (along with stuffed animals and perfume\/cologne): Contrary to stereotypes, the majority of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,2124,55,2087,254,265,280],"class_list":["post-20648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays","tag-jewelry","tag-perfumecologne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59128,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/59128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}