This almost makes sense: if we take the formal marriage as the only way of expresing commitment between partners, and given that sex was until recently more or less inevitably leading to pregnancy, limiting sex to married couples is not entirely unreasonable.


Dragi, that is insightful. I had never considered it from that perspective before. It gives me more tolerance towards what I had always felt were excessively puritannical attitudes towards sex and marriage traditionally held by religious practitioners.

tanstaafl.