Oh Please

This is truly laugh-worthy, and late — because frankly, it didn’t deserve any digital ink at the time.
But when one gets bored….
Thanks to cheap sex, marriage may be doomed.
The share of Americans ages 25-34 who are married dropped 13 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. A new book by sociologist Mark Regnerus blames this declining rate on how easy it is for men to get off.
Regnerus calls it ‘cheap sex,’ an economic term meant to describe sex that has very little cost in terms of time or emotional investment, giving it little value.
He goes on to “credit”….. masturbation, as if that’s some new thing.
I think he’s got a few screws missing — never mind a few timelines.
What this clownface refuses to acknowledge is the changes in legal environment for marriage. Previous to the so-called sexual revolution once you said “yes” to marriage you were mostly stuck. Oh sure, you could walk off, but you couldn’t get a divorce without showing fault, which was mostly defined as terrible cruelty, alcoholism, abuse and similar offenses. “I don’t love you anymore” didn’t cut it, and more to the point if you took off and ran as a woman you didn’t get either the kids or the money.

This post was published at Market-Ticker on 2017-10-03.