"LF: You make the argument that we’ve been sold on this
idea that there’s just one kind of love: monogamous heterosexual love that makes a baby.
idea that there’s just one kind of love: monogamous heterosexual love that makes a baby.
MW: Yeah. Kant has this goofy German definition of marriage where it’s a mutual contract for the reciprocal use of someone’s genitals. That exclusive-genital sexuality is great if it’s with the right person, but we focus on how much it sucks not to have that; we rarely talk about how often it also sucks. Like, marriages are often unhappy—the No. 1 source of harm to a woman is her intimate partner."
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