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For Many, Marriage Is Sexless, Boring and Oppressive: Time to Rethink the Institution?


Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?

In between the political blow-ups caused by the adulteries of Senator John Ensign and Gov. Mark Sanford, darkly comic writer Sandra Tsing Loh, who has never been one to hide her personal life, wrote a sad, witty piece about the impending end of her 20-year marriage.  Why are Tsing Loh and her husband calling it quits?  Tsing Loh cheated on her husband, an event that apparently instigated their divorce.  Someone should tell former White House press secretary Dana Perino, whose recent statements about electing women to politics included her musings about why women don't stray.  We'll have to consider that hypothesis a dud, unless someone wants to challenge Tsing Loh's gender.