Monday, July 20, 2009

Thoughts on a cultural trainwreck

Darwin has a great analysis of an Atlantic article in which the author suggests that marriage is a passe concept. For example:

I was utterly unsurprised when the one sex-starved woman mentioned her husband heading off into the den to watch his internet porn...In a world in which sex has been totally divorced from its biological meaning, why not retreat into the world of unreality? Why accept a real person with needs and moods and desires and a body which is the product of age, genetics and personal habits when carefully selected bodies can be seen doing anything one desires only a mouse click and a couple dollars away? This is the natural path down which one goes when one separates the mating urge from mating with one's mate.

Read the rest here.

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