“For Many, Marriage Is Sexless, Boring and Oppressive: Time to Rethink the Institution?”

Amanda Marcotte writes at Altar.Net: “But as a firm believer that institutions should exist for people, and not people for institutions, I have to ask the broader question: If marriage, at least marriage as we know it (as Tsing Loh describes it, as work: ‘….I can earn my half-sometimes more-of the money; I can pay the bills; I can refinance the house at the best possible interest rate; I can drive my husband to the airport; in his absence, I can sort his mail; I can be home to let the plumber in on Thursday between nine and three, and I can wait for the cable guy…’), is disintegrating because people find it oppressive, soul-sucking, passionless, and boring, then so what?”