I seem to have read that the marriage rate is dropping. I know I keep hearing about how the birth rate is declining in the western world especially. I would say that this is a result of the feminization of society.
Men have been realizing that their sex drive is not the main reason they want to be with women. I know women keep explaining it that way about how men are animals and driven by their hormones. But what men are realizing is that the deeper need for family, children, companionship and a partner in a relationship are more important than sex. Women can give sex without commitment just as men can. Men may grab that in the short term but in the long term it’s not enough.
I don’t want to reject the importance of the physical intimacy in a lifelong marriage but even affection and general physical contact is not the end game. It should be noted that in the Bible sex is recognized and ecouraged in marriage but in Ephesians 5 Paul doesn’t even mention that as a key. What does he say a man needs?
(Eph 5:33 NAS77) Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.Most of this long section is about the duties of men to their wives but respect is the only thing a woman is required to give.
homo unius libri
And it would seem in the long run most of us guys would really desire respect more than even sex.
ReplyDeleteBlogger is playing games again so I am responding this way. In the short run guys may be motivated by hormones, double that when they are young. In the long run I agree.
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