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On marriage

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU): Between Tradition and Progress: A Comparative Perspective on Polygamy in the United States and India. On the once-wide acceptance of same-sex unions between men in Europe of the Middle Ages: An excerpt from Sex and Punishment by Eric Berkowitz. Did a sexual revolution, led by low-ranking males and faithful females, lay down the roots of the modern family? From e-flux, Slavoj Zizek on Hegel on marriage. From The View from Hell, because humans evolved to rely on cultural patterns and coercion to enforce marital partnerships, marriage no longer really exists — all that is left to us is cohabitation relationships under the false name of marriage; a look at some behaviors and triggers that either reinforce or erode a marriage community; and is having children one of the patterns that would support, and hence predict, marital stability? A review of Debating Same-Sex Marriage by John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher. From Vanity Fair, if fairness and equality don’t clinch the argument for gay marriage, consider its positive effect on an entrenched modern monstrosity — the wedding itself.