On the importance of the good-enough marriage and how we are losing it
A few notes on Mark Regnerus' excellent work _Cheap Sex_
I use this book in several courses b/c it’s simply the best single recent statement on what has gone awry with American dating and mating culture over the past several decades.
The world of sexual relationships can be looked at as a market in which goods are pursued and exchanged. Economic goods are sometimes involved, but not inevitably. Other goods t…