Your DNA and that of your kids, are the marriage license, birth certificate and whatever else is legitimately needed to manage the necessary social responsibilities. Marriage in the past was the way society regulated peoples sexual/reproductive behavior and when there was no other way to determine/control parentage this made (some)sense. Now it doesn't. Marriage is beloved of conservatives because they are hopeful that, even though the legal institution of marriage has no coercive power NOW, that they will be able to juice it up again in the future after society has been "revived". This is why they are so hysterical about gay marriage; they feel that opening this door will make such "revitalization" of marriage difficult or impossible in the future.

AFTER the necessary legal reforms that the piece refers to have been fully implemented.

the problem is that for the capacity for that kind of obsession to exist the bad kind has to be potentially possible too. I don't mean both potentials have to exist in the same person, although sometimes they do, I mean that the two things are closely enough related that if one trait exists in a population the other will too. It's different for women; because they are much pickier and more easily put off they can lose interest in many men, all but one man, or all men, without being totally "obsessed".

the fact that socipaths are are literal minded does not mean that all the literal minded are sociopaths, and in fact as we can see on TV every day the "most powerful sociopath in the world" isn't coherent enough to be literal minded (or at least not detectable as such by normal rational processes).

is that All the true believing right wing psychopaths hate them because unlike Bush he is not one of them and EVERYBODY ELSE hates them because they are perceived as doing nothing to restrain the true believing right wing psychopath in chief.

Not in the society I'm living in. Unless you interpret not getting everything your own way all the time as the ultimate in self sacrifice, only for women of course.

why is it that women are the ones constantly complaining about excessive male attention.

obviously this won't be universally the case but it's enough that even if men wanted it and women trusted men, drug companies wouldn't want to make it. Actually women trusting men would make the situation worse because more would stop their pills. It sounds much better from a PR point of view though to say "people don't want it" hence the "inexplicable" "inability" to understand their own data.

it is WOMEN who have trouble taking an interest in average men.

NO THEY CAN'T: how many women will be dripping wet over this, no matter how nice the guy is: ZERO and you know it. Again: WOMEN are the ones complaining that men want to harass/fuck them all the time and that there are no men worthy of them and AT THE SAME TIME women constantly complain that they are being PERSECUTED for not looking enough and that MEN are being rewarded for being fat pigs. There really is no way of avoiding the question: Are women insane?

believe me, THEY NOTICE, but they don't want, can't want really, to stop at that point and what else are they going to say afterwards? There are certain hazards in relying on a gay man as your sole source of information about what it feels like for men to fuck women.

I'm certain you are wrong, but unfortunately there is no way to test. I note that the "pro life" actually anti sex/anti contraception movement is made up mostly of women.

who ACTUALLY WANT TO HAVE SEX?

AND the vast majority of women can find people willing to sleep with them, it obviously CANNOT be true.

Men, unlike women are interested in sexual relationships at all stages of their lives (whether they can make them happen is another matter). Men unlike women don't have the option of fixing a "mistake" pregnancy after the fact...SO men, unlike women, can become parents when they don't want to be. The only contraception options that men have now are permanent sterility or something which deadens sensation to the degree that if men had to used it AND had the sex drives women have men would never have sex. Whatever the reason is it is not lack of interest.

the question is are both sides motivated to make compromises to make things work. Men have always been willing to compromise; using your money to support a woman is a compromise. What is unclear is whether or not women are willing to make compromises which are comparable now that they don't need relationships with men in order to function socially and economically. Actually it seems fairly clear that they aren't.