Everybody knows mail order marriages are at best a last resort for jerks looking to boss a foreign spouse around or, at worst, a front for human trafficking. Or are they? Yes and no. Mail order marriage comes with nuance and a surprisingly long history.
# Stuff You Should Know: Mail Order Marriages
This episode explores the surprising history and complicated reality of mail order marriages, from colonial America to today's digital dating platforms. The hosts dive into how these arrangements evolved from government-sponsored schemes to stabilize frontier communities into a modern industry with thousands of online brokerages, examining everything from the genuine success stories to the darker elements involving exploitation and trafficking. Along the way, they grapple with the murky moral questions surrounding an industry that can simultaneously offer women agency and opportunity while creating dangerous power imbalances and vulnerabilities.
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