中国婚姻制度历史悠久,且具民族特色。发掘和阐释其历史,对于社会史和法律史的研究无疑具有重要意义。 我国学术界对婚姻家庭史的系统探讨发端于本世纪二三十年代。新中国建立之后,尤其是十年“文革”之中,婚姻史的研究一度荒废。近几年史学界、社会学界对婚姻史的研究开始复苏,出现了一批颇有功力的论著,青年学者戴伟的《中国婚姻性爱史稿》,正是其中的一部。 China’s marriage system has a long history and national characteristics. To excavate and explain its history has undoubtedly great significance for the study of social history and legal history. The systematic discussion of the history of marriage and family in academia in our country originated in the 1920s and 1930s. After the founding of New China, especially during the “Cultural Revolution” of the last decade, the study of the history of marriage was once abandoned. In recent years, historians and sociologists have begun to revive their studies on the history of marriage, and a number of influential treatises have emerged. The “scholarly history of Chinese marital sex” by the young scholar Dai Wei is one of them.