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No a law against open marriage CANNOT be enforced. If you think it can please elaborate and tell me exactly how YOU would enforce that law and what the consequences would be.
Do the same thing they do with prostitution you set up sting operations targeting known hangouts for swingers. You can also set up a website front like ashley madison the advertises places to meet for people in open relationships. If the government wants to be crafty about it....they can do it. Now i don't think it's likely, but i have seen some stories of overzealous prosecutors doing some crazy stuff too.
Maybe for rhetorical effect, but no, it's not a true oxymoron. The words "open" and "marriage" are not inherently contradictory. Your beliefs and morals may make them personally contradictory, but that doesn't change their own inherent relationship to each other.
It makes a cutsie little sound bite though.
Actually, they are. What is the definition of marriage? I think you know they are contradictory. The term "marriage" does not allow for relationships between more than one person. Ergo, the terms "open" and "marriage" are indeed contradictory. How "cutsie."
The voting process should determine what bests helps a society move forward.....it shouldn't determine how people live their lives in their own homes however.
But it does. Spousal or child abuse could easily have been considered "none of your business" not that long ago.
Actually, they are. What is the definition of marriage? I think you know they are contradictory. The term "marriage" does not allow for relationships between more than one person. Ergo, the terms "open" and "marriage" are indeed contradictory. How "cutsie."
All those who get bent out of shape about the posting of definitions, look away.
From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of MARRIAGE
1
a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage> b : the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock c : the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage
2
: an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected; especially : the wedding ceremony and attendant festivities or formalities
3
: an intimate or close union <the marriage of painting and poetry — J. T. Shawcross>
As bill mahr once said "the only thing keeping a man loyal is his options" While of course some men don't cheat....most do at some point in their lives.
I have already made my point. Just because the men you know are (obviously) not monogamous does not mean that there are not monogamous men out here.
Just like the "cutsie" assertion made earlier by another poster about what is oxymoronic and what is not.
Obviously you didn't read what i said because i never said all men cheat, i said most men do.
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