marriage is not a peice of paper like u think, its show how serious both partner to spend their life and prepare to enter the world of pa and ma. Yes its sinful to have holding hands, hugging, kissing or any kind of skin contact before marriage in some religions.
But many people ignore this because have person like u who just make decision using ur brain and not refer to the lifestyle of the religions or culture.
Of cos god create men, but not all thing that god create can be use like you want, each of them has limitation. That why have thing called Bad and good. If god give hand, it doesnt mean we can steal and we can blindly stab people around.
Your way of perspective may ruin the world if u based of god create men and means we can do anything.
You may choose the way of west countries do sex or what ever do you want. And if the person love each other so much, it no need to do sex until it legally to do after marriage to make sure the relation going on, and yes..it was ask by religion.
If you that dun have any religion may dun understand this kind of problem and just act with ur normal capability brain.
Up to you... paper is still a paper at the end of the day and never can be used as a gauge to measure the responsilibity and seriousness to enter the further part of our life. Its just that people that play by the rules that feel the others are bad whereas rules is just another tool to manipulate/control people's behaviour.
Rules is just like a transparent window. It really depends on which side you view from.