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Originally posted by Leo Volont
That is true.
But often married couples incorporate celibacy into their effective definitions of their monogamy. *They don't want sex to disrupt their arrangment one way or another. *
You see, after a certain point in one's sexual experience, one realizes that there is nothing new under the sun. *If you have a working relationship with your spouse -- not sexually, but functionally -- he or she brings home money, cleans, does the shopping, pays the bills, fixes the cars, etc. *Then it seems silly, if sex is no longer THAT important, to get a divorce. *Who will bring home money, clean, do the shopping, pay the bills, fix the cars. *
Indeed, I would consider getting married again EXCEPT that I suppose the lady would expect to have sex, and would probably expect to be able to intrude upon my privacy. *Many marriages would benefit, I suspect, if only certain personal boundaries were tacitly, that is, culturally understood and accepted. * As it is, couples get married because they are in love and certain issues are never explicitly confronted -- that each person will have one room that is exclusively and privately their own, with no intrusions ever allowed, that behavior won't be informal, that all ettiquettes and polite forms will maintain. *I suppose the greatest problem in modern marriages is that the couples are expected to share a bedroom. *My god, but when can anybody ever get any privacy!?
