All materialistic philosophies regard sex as a function and view marriage as merely instrumental. Societies that have reflected this view always favor easy divorce, when one of the partners is found to be incapable of performing the procreative function. Our own culture, which is decisively materialistic in practice, holds that partners should not be bound when they decide that they are incompatible — a weasel word, which often means one partner does not perform the physical function to the full satisfaction of the other. Such a view of marriage does not regard the husband and wife as bound together in a relationship of being, but as involved in a functional liaison.
William S. Banowsky, It’s A Playboy World, p.80
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