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Shymal,
In your last email you qoute from Shaw that marriage is a legal prostitution.
Lets have objective analysis on this famous comment of G.B.Shaw.
What is a marriage?
It is a legal contract between a man and a woman to live a family life that includes having sexual intercourse, raising kids together and act as a
financial unit from a state's viewpoint.
In all the countries, a marriage can be nullified if any of the partner is accused of adultery and the accusation is not condoned by one of its partner.
Also, upon the death of a partner, surviving partner will inherit his/her property.
On the other hand, prostitution is defined as �etting involved in the act of sex, in exchange of monitory favor". More precisely, contractual sex based
on a price. Since a man and a woman get involved in sex in the contract of marriage, marital sex is definitely a contractual sex. You further observe this
contract comes with a direct or indirect price like 'earning potential of groom', 'beauty of the bride' etc. It can be observed that 'earning potential of the groom' should be high to afford 'beautiful wife'. A situation similar to have high contractual price to afford a beautiful prostitute. So, you conclude like Shaw that marriage is a legal prostitution.
Now what is the purpose of marriage?
If the purpose of marriage is to legalize the sexual relation between a man and a woman and kids are offshoot of that relation, then I have no doubt that
marriage is a legal prostitution. And it is bound to be that way following the laws of economics.
But if the purpose of marriage is to raise a family,kids, because that is our duty as biological being to sustain our biosphere and make it better, sex is a
secondary affair in marriage. In that case, a woman get married to a man of better wealth and virtue because she wants to provide a better life to her
kids. She wants best food and finest education for her kids that come with a price. And a man wants beautiful wife, because he wants his/her children to be
beautiful. Sometimes a man wants a professional wife, because he wants the kids to be educated better and live a more prosperous life.
So instead of argument let� ask this question! Did we marry to have sex or to have kids to raise a family?
For me, I know I got married for the purpose of raising a family because in USA, for having sex with a woman, you don't need to get married.
So whether your wife is a prostitute or not, choice depends on what you or your wife are looking in your marriage.
-Biplab
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