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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (3203)1/11/2006 4:56:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 219223
 
Gib, the modern concept of marriage is a silly thing. What it really was was as you described = a village/tribal way of dealing with sex and babies and property, all essential to be managed if civilization is to exist.

No more rutting in the jungle hunter gathering.

Now it's all about property and paternity.

The deal was woman and man get randy. Woman thinks "Oh, oh, this could lead to problems for me". We need "marriage". Bloke figures "Okay, it's a deal. I'm desperate."

Villagers gather and tell bloke, "Okay mate, you are it! The kids are your responsibility and so is the woman so get ready to start working. We've got our eye on you and your life won't be worth living if you fail your responsibilities. We have shotguns, stocks, lashes and gallows."

It's all done in the nicest possible way of course. And it's a willing deal. More or less. For the most part. There's always a messy and expensive divorce option, though not in the Catholic realm.

As you say, swanky guys like you can't just get around sowing seed. Though with the modern state-funded beneficiary arrangement where the state is father/husband provider and sperm donors wander around like Johny Appleseed, it's becoming common again, albeit quite a mess and very expensive for taxpayers. Not to mention sociologically catastrophic for the little bastards running around wondering what life is all about.

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