Reply #62: Well, from an individual who lived thru the 'free love' movement....

[noel711]

that didn't work out real well, especially for us women.
To put it bluntly... we were used up at a fairly quick clip.
Not real pretty.

Bring it back? From what I see going on in my daughter's generation,
they're doing something similar, only it's called 'hooking up,'
but there's no dating require.. just find someone in class, or in
a bar, or in a gathering.. and 'get it on.'
And in my opinion, women are being used up at a fairly quick clip.
NOt real pretty.

Your quip about monogamy glorified 'like its holy'... hmmm.
It's all about economics.
As long as women are the sex that gets pregnant,
and bears the children, they will need economic support.
Its impossible to work a 40 hour week while you have to maintain
a home and the nurturance of dependant children. The feminist movement
attempted to resolve this, but because we live in a patriarchal
economic focused culture, those needs will never be resolved because
we do not have: full health care, economic parity, full free education,
full free day care for children, and stop this market driven, unregulated
capitalism.

Sexual monogamy through some form of legal serial marriage/committment
is one form of economic support so family - as we know it- can survive.
What it boils down to: most men will not support the progeny of other
men, and to ensure ones DNA will survive into the future, they will
legally bind women (and their offspring) to themselves as an insurance policy.


Oh, and there are still alternatives:
one of them, polygamy, is still viable out west.
But if you remember from the reports earlier this year,
that too didn't work out too well for the women.
Very young women were being used up at a fairly quick clip.
NOt real pretty.

And, unless you are young, beautiful, and rich, polyamory is a joke.
Sex is about the survival of the species. And its the young and
beautiful who get the most shots at mating.
Who wants to sleep, and bear children with, someone aged, senile,
not attractive, and in poverty? Unless you are Donald Trump or
Hugh Hefner, it's not gonna happen. And even in that
scenario, I cringe.