[blam]

"And without at least a serious attempt at fidelity, what the hell reason is there for getting married in the first place?"

Yup. With more and more people accepting that it is the responsibility of the state to care for their 'chilrun', marriage is obsolete, huh?

[Devil_Anse]

Looks that way. I mean, if we're going to live in communes, we don't need things like "moms" and "dads".

In the future, people will get babies only by picking an anonymous father (by reading his description); then people of indeterminate gender, wearing clean white lab coats, will artificially inseminate the most likely female candidates (those who pay the most money) with the semen of the chosen men. Thus, sex will also become unnecessary (although masturbation will continue--in fact, male masturbation will be more necessary than sex.) In fact, sex may even eventually become prohibited by law.

This will be a much more civilized atmosphere, since all babies will be planned with excruciating care, and men and women will no longer have to degrade themselves by touching each other.

Such a great civilization it will be!