It sure helps, anyway. I'm not entirely sure how the condition of women compares--particularly when compared with classical Greek culture, in which a woman should be neither seen nor heard by any man except husband or close relatives, ever. But both produced a lot of the same cultural whatsis.
Notably, in the ancient Greek wedding ceremony, the process was explicitly an exchange between the groom and the bride's father--she was not involved in any way that indicated she was a person (unless she was Medea). So, yeah, you're not really going to get a whole lot of het romance, no matter how much het sex you have, what with romance having to be a relation between people and all. The whole meaningful-relationships-with-women-as-cultural-ideal was a medieval invention (by which point women could, for example, own property, and in some countries, inherit titles, lands, and so forth, so they were people a lot more).