This is correct, but I wasn't attempting to imply the PEASANTS were necessarily always prudish or saintly, but I still think even the peasants would still have arranged marriages just because making the next generation was critical, since getting behind on things, and being an old couple with no kids made you a dead weight on the town, and NOBODY wanted that since people felt this greater then. Doesn't mean brothels and other shit couldn't happen, or that everyone did this persay, but my point was it was of a GREATER social focus to have children and raise them. If a man could do that and still visited a brothel, sure, maybe it was frowned on if known, but if he kept his family cared for, this was otherwise tolerated, since his "duty" as a man was being done. The real element of crime was more about not raising kids / abandoning them.
Infact since many peasants were seen as psudo property under lords and kings, its sensible that they would be invested in them breeding too, just so a kings son would have another generation of peasants to lord over. So forced marriages could even be arranged BY the king / lord. "hey, heres a girl from the next town over, make babies so your son can make crops for my son in 20 years. NO, this isn't a choice, do it or ill FUCKING KILL YOU".
So you aren't wrong, they definitely had brothels, hookups, infidelity, sex out of wedlock, rapes, ect, but as far as CHILDBIRTH went, society was framed with responsibility towards it even more than now. There was no CPS back then, so it was intense social pressure since fatherless children / lack of children was a MUCH nastier issue for the time. Its one of the reasons rapes lead into forced weddings, many wrongly believe it was a "reward" for the man, when it was actually more like a "you break it, you buy it" policy. Knocked a woman up? either your life is serving her, caring for her and raising her kid now OR....we will lynch you in the worst possible ways. It was EFFECTIVELY an easy remedy to prevent bastard children with no man around to care for them, if you force a marriage under the point of a sword.
its also why the church was big, since it effectively functioned ALSO as an orphanage in many cases in situations where fatherless children did become an issue, but the biggest bullwark against it breaking down society was intense social pressure, ALSO provided by the church. Definitely didn't work 100% of the time, but worked ENOUGH to keep shit from crumbling.
I was not really contradicting you, your post was rather reasonable.
One of the problems that fatherless children posed was that they were outside of the feudal system and didn't have anything to inherit, no trade to learn and no land to farm. Many of them were either destined for crime, try their luck in a city or enlist as a fighter. For women, options were even more slim, many only had prostitution or very menial work.
One of the few ways to actually better your station and have a "career", for both genders, was the church.
Becoming a monk or nun gave them security, room and board and secure employment. If they were talented and diligent enough, even the lowborn could rise far in the church-structure.
It also kept them from having children, and was a very effective tool for keeping the population stable.
One thing KCD1 and 2 excel at is showing a somewhat realistic view in the lives of the people of the era. How their tools looked, what they ate and drank, how mostly untamed nature was, etc. I am not in Kuttenberg yet, but I am looking forward to it. I have actually visited the city numerous times, and it was a very good choice to recreate because the city still has most of its medieval bones in its architecture.
There are only a few things that are of course absurd, like the number of bandits.
I will judge the inclusion of Jews and Gypsys when I come to it, but it will be surely an overall positive despiction of them.
One historical tidbit is actually interesting in that context, Charles lV, the father of the feuding brothers Wenzel and Sigismund, was the one who wrote the "constitution" of the Holy Roman Empire, the golden bull. One of the laws in it was just how the Jews would be handled.
He himself was rather friendly to the Jews in his own Kingdom of Bohemia, on Imperial Level, he let the Princes handle them however they wished, which was also part of the golden bull. At the time, Bohemia was probably more friendly to Jews than most other Principalities of the HRE. This changed only shortly after the succession war despicted in the game, the Hussites were much more hostile to Jews, as were the neighboring Archduke of Austria, who would be Sigismund's successor as Emperor. That guy's name was Albrecht, and he headed a Pogrom against the Viennese Jews that gave them the choices to either leave Austria without their belongings, convert or get burned at the Pyre. The house of Luxemburg ended with Sigismund, and he groomed Albrecht, his son-in law as his successor. That was actually the beginning of the nearly unbroken Habsburg rule of the Empire until its dissolution through Franz ll.
Here a contemporary depiction of the Viennese Pogrom:
