MelancholicPotatoChip
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I love your post and never considered the origin of marriage.
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Who invented "Marriage" ?
- Thread starter chinu
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Someone who needed a rhyme for ‘carriage’ in a poem, or a song possibly. Barrage doesn’t really do it, neither does mileage or spoilage. It’s the ia diphthong.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Oy veh. Yet another conspiracy theory. This age is just...
anotherneil
Member
The marriage business is also very lucrative for divorce lawyers.
wellwisher
Well-Known Member
Marriage is geared toward the female. It is the bride who is featured in the marriage ceremony. The marriage ceremony is not about the groom; Bride's pride and Groom's doom. My guess is, marriage first appeared during the Age of Matriarchies, before the rise of civilization. These social structures were geared toward nature worship, with the female's role in pregnancy and birth, giving her a natural prestige; connected to Mother Nature.
If you look at modern school age children, the girls tend to obey the rules sooner than the boys; on average. Boys are more free spirited; on average. In terms of the evolution of human culture, this genetic residue of the past, suggests that the females became socially structured, sooner. Marriage was part of that early social structuring, arranged by the matriarches. This structuring helped to structure the more free spirited males. Like in the garden of Eden, Eve leads Adam to the tree of social knowledge. He eats because she eats. The Patriarchies would appear later, after the domestication of the males.
Males and female brain's are wired differently. The male brain is more wired front to back; visual and imagination centers. The female brain is more wired side to side; audio and verbal centers; language. Male are visual animals and females are more verbal. The brain's firmware; apps; archetypes of the collective unconscious, which define our human nature, are similar but staggered in men and women. Men and women are designed to be complements, like two gears meshing, giving torque, by turning in the opposite directions.
In my experience, when men and women became connected in intimate relationships, their unconscious minds will start to cross program each other, to connect the gears; team can become more than the sum of its parts. Marriage was a way to force a long term unconscious mind process, so the gears could hook up and help drive each other; team effect. This expanded the early male and female minds for civilization. Classic Marriage is still the most cost effective social construct for social needs; young and old.
This is unavoidably a complex, nuanced question that requires a similarly complex answer.
Marriages have both personal and public aspects, and have diverse and simultaneous meanings for different publics. Sex is not necessarily a big part of it - or even a part of it at all.
From a legal perspective, marriages are necessary in order to avoid painful conflicts over who gets to make medical decisions about a person who is unconscious, who inherits property and rights, and who shares duties and benefits.
From a social perspective, marriages are essentially statements of commitment and significance. Whether that alone would be enough to make marriages necessary may be a arbitrary decision.
A specific but important part of that social role is, of course, the declaration of mutual commitment among the married people themselves. That has emotional and motivational significance. Again, I don't know that people would consistently decide whether that this is necessary or just very welcome indeed.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I tend to believe it gradually evolved to help reduce tension within society.
On the second question, I don't have a moral problem with premarital sex per se but hope that the couple realizes what they're doing and the possible consequences in advance.