FratFiles

• Save Paper

Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites



Despite all the fashionable theories of marriage, the narratives and the feminists, the reasons to engage in marriage largely remain the same. True, there have been role reversals and new stereotypes have cropped up. But the biological, physiological and biochemical facts were less amenable to modern criticisms of culture. Men are still men and women are still women in more than one respect.



Men and women marry for the same reasons :

The Sexual Dyad – formed due to sexual attraction and in order to secure a stable, consistent and permanently available source of sexual gratification.

The Economic Dyad – To form a functioning economic unit within which the economic activities of the members of the dyad and of additional entrants will be concentrated. The economic unit generates more wealth than it......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 3199
Approximate Pages: 13 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Euphoric And Dysphoric Phases In Marriage
   

   Euphoric And Dysphoric Phases In Marriage. Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy,
   Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites. Despite all ...