Marriage Is a Deeply Flawed Institution Which Often Fails to Meet the Needs of Both Partners; Instead It Serves More Faithfully the Needs of Society.”

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In order to pursue a perfect social system men created a lot of rules and restrictions for themselves. Then humans institutionalized these rules in the form of laws. These institutions include Religion, Culture, Education, Language, Marriage, Family etc. While some of these institutions have proven to be useful for human beings, others have just the opposite effect. One of the most important institutions in a society is that of marriage. The practice of marriage has often been a subject of criticism. In fact, marriages have long since been used for achieving different purposes of society by killing the liberty and individual rights of people. One of the biggest defects of marriage is that it does not fulfill the sexual desires of married partners. Actually sex is an impulsive desire which cannot be tamed while marriages try to confine these desires only to the married partner. Thus this restriction on the fundamental instinct of human beings creates a lot of sexual frustration in them. This often puts a spouse in a state of depression. A research carried out by Buss and Shackelford of the University of Texas at Austin revealed that around sixty percent men and fifty percent women are involved in some kind of affair during their marriage (193-221). As a result, the problem of spousal infidelity arises which is one of the major causes of divorce all around world. Divorce may not be the only consequence of infidelity. It constantly affects the mentality of a suspicious spouse which leaves the spouse in a permanent state of mistrust and uncertainness. Sweeney and Horwitz deeply explain the psychological consequences of infidelity which include the emotions of outrage, betrayal, resentment, anger, shame and anxiety (296-297). So the current institution of marriage fails to cope with all sort of problems related to sexual frustration. Another major flaw of the marriage

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