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- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <adams.714941357@spssig>
- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:49:17 GMT
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- regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
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- >In article <exukjb.98.714932009@exu.ericsson.se> exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell) writes:
- >>In article <176sg0INN27n@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>>What did you want to know about marriage?
- >>
- >>How about: Would marriage exist at all without the sex urge?
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- >Yes.
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- >Marriage is basically an economic contract. It only recently became the
- >'approved' environment for sex.
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- If you mean within the last 4000 years or so as recently, then, yes.
- Judaism has held this basic stand since the days of the Patriarchs. That
- means 5000 years or so.
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- -Steve
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