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There\u2019s been an essay making the rounds by Josh Weed, a gay Mormon man<\/a> who\u2019s been happily married to his wife for ten years and has had several children with her. \u00a0I was reminded of it when thinking about how essential sexuality is to human identity<\/a> in the last post. \u00a0Weed opted for a companionate marriage, where the two are intimate partners, but their bond isn\u2019t driven by sexual chemistry. \u00a0As\u00a0 Noah Millman wrote for AmCon<\/a>, it\u2019s only relatively recently that sexual comparability and desire have been rated as\u00a0necessary<\/em> components of marriage.<\/p>\n

A number of people see this kind of marriage as a waste (or worse, a ticking time bomb), but I\u2019m not sure that I have any objection. \u00a0Or that most liberals would if we just tweak the parameters a little bit. \u00a0Would this be a good outcome for Weed if he were asexual? If he were a woman nearing the end of her fertility who hadn\u2019t found someone with whom she had a sexual frisson<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Why shouldn\u2019t two good friends want to entrust their lives to each other and pass on their love to a child just because they need to lie back and think of England when the time comes to\u00a0conceive\u00a0one. \u00a0The relationship of two friends is obviously different<\/em> from that of two lovers, but I\u2019m not sure why it\u2019s necessarily lesser<\/em> or a poor type of parenting relationship.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"