On Thursday 09 Apr 2009 1:04:49 pm . wrote: > If Shefali Anand did live in India, especially through the 90's and > the current decade, she would know that Indian women are not exactly > demure as most misconceptions go. The author would have been > enlightened if she had taken the trouble to actually live and meet > some (so-called repressed rural and urban) Indian women[0]. <snip> > > Marriage is a human social construct in which monogamy is forced. As I > > have stated earlier I believe it has social benefits that are > > unrecognised by randy men and women who have access to birth control. In > > the absence of birth control, the human female gets to pay a higher price > > for polygamy than the male. > > How so? The women can still abandon the kid at an orphanage or abort > them at a local illegal quack, risking her life in the process. Such > 5x5cm articles were an everyday occurrence in local papers.
Unfortunately being demure or not is not the problem IMO. Women end up having sex as often as men on average - given that it takes two to do it. In the absence of social support a pregnant girl is in serious trouble. If she is married - support from a husband helps. Abortion and pregnancy all carry some risk to life and health. Pregnancy is a burden. A live baby is a burden, as is a dead baby. Its fun all the way for the man. The more he scores - the better. In the absence of contraception the cost is invariably higher for the woman unless the cost is raised for men by forcing a man to stay and support the woman he has impregnated on pain of some punishment (in other words - marriage :D LOL shiv
