Chastity, followed by marriage, followed by fidelity, was a wing-ding of a social construction, because it controlled men by giving them a small market-share of carnality. Marriage was a trap all be it a honey-trap, for men , not women. It was devised by men, with but one goal —to provide the best possible template for successfully raising children, as many children as possible, in an under-populated world. Marriage is a triumph of man’s civil conscience over his instinct to rut with every nubile female that he can outrun over ten miles. The Feminazi were right, it was a patriarchal construct, but it was forced on men, by other men, with the carrot of regular, if limited, sex, and the big, vengeful stick of tribal exclusion or worse for those who demurred. It was pure patriarchal altruism, a triumph of civilised man over base instinct. Marriage was constructed for one purpose only- the successful raising of children. It was a sacred covenant made between ...