The Brave Pedestrian

I would like to stick my neck out and make A MARRIED MAN'S POSITION abundantly clear in the context of the MARITAL-RAPE DEBATE. Yes, I may end up being considered brutish, but still, I believe these are the down-and-dirty facts of life. Deal with it. The situation for a married man is like this: 1) Regardless of whether his wife has sexual needs or not, a man definitely has sexual needs. 2) If on a particular day, if the wife is not available for satisfying his needs (not in the mood, unwell, tired, generally unhappy with life, doesn't feel loving towards her husband, the presence of kids and relatives in the house are hindering, etc.), then a man normally waits... but there is a limit to his patience, and his patience wears down over a span of some days or weeks. 3) If the wife continues to be unavailable, and the days turn into weeks and months, then a) he must act like a monk and stay content with masturbation, OR b) he must find a suitable consenting sexual partn...

One of my friends recently remarked in his blog:  “ Men romance and woo women, be thoughtful to them, take care, promise to protect them, slay dragons, scale mountains…. with only one goal on their minds – to get between the legs of the unsuspecting starry-eyed one. Women, on the other hand, allow men to have sex with them with the hope that somewhere down the line they will romance and woo them, be thoughtful to them, take care, promise to protect them, slay dragons, scale mountains. Thats how procreation continues and the two parties maintain some equilibrium!” From this, one would conclude that Civilization is based on two mutually complementary lies, or illusions. But my case is that our current civilization is based on an uneven contract  –  one side being socially enforceable, and the other side, not. Feminine strategy consists essentially of saying to the male, more with body language than anything else, “Marry me, commit to me and my offspring,...