Caitlin Flanagan, a woman familiar with controversy, wrote a new article in the latest Time Magazine about the importance of marriage and the importance of what we’re losing in Western society as we continually chip way at the institution. It is a well written piece worth your time reading. While not without her critics, she does make some very strong points.

“The one thing both men refused to admit was that, back in the heyday of these affairs, they must have been having a blast. These were two middle-aged, conservative Republican men who had said, To hell with being part of the Cialis generation (midlife sexuality depicted as an aging husband and wife reclining in ... side-by-side bathtubs? What is the drugmaker worried about — that randy Pa might jump in Ma's bath and break her hip?). Their actions were so willful and blatantly self-centered that the two of them could have credibly fashioned themselves as rebels, possibly even as heroes, if they could have just stopped crying. They weren't a couple of tools stuck in sexless marriages and making up for it with Internet porn. These guys had embarked on dangerously erotic rampages with real-life, unencumbered women, women who decidedly weren't ... Jenny and Darlene. The long-suffering wives, Fun Busters in Chief.”

Marriage is something I have written about in the past, something that we will live to regret losing once the last vestiges of the societal glue are removed. Western society cannot afford to lose this institution and anyone willing to fight for it is someone to keep nearby.

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