Among my readings, one controversial woman wrote that marriage was a way to ensure that a man would propagate...meaning...there was no DNA testing in the past. In order to ensure that his offspring were his, a man betrothed a women. She goes on to say that as much as a man is meant to spread his seed that a woman is designed to gather it. Diversity occurs by multiple seeding and multiple gathering. Hence, genetically, humans are not 'coded' to be monagamous.
She goes on to say that in many species, the female stays with family/parents and copulates with male visitors.
In humans, the sexual fire lasts about 1 1/2-2 years before the sizzle goes out. We are also the only species that has sex for other reasons than reproduction.
Perhaps we are not genetically designed to be with one person forever.
Perhaps with the upward progression of women in society, there is no need for them to be dependent on men/marriage to survive.
Perhaps...the moral fibre of our society has eroded. It's OK to take steroids if you hit 70 homers a year...it's OK to get fellated in the White House if the economy is good...you can trample people to death for a sale at Walmart.
Affairs....divorce...piece of cake.
FIB
Me 55; XW 47; 2 kids (S13, D11) Bomb 05/19/06 Original thread http://tinyurl.com/yg2ou2t Last anniversary 04/25/10, Divorced 5/12/10 Status: Loving father of 2 beautiful children;
