ADAM and Eve according to the Abrahamic religions were the first man and woman. Here we are told that all humans descended from Adam and Eve. In the Book of Genesis, chapter one through five, there are two creation narratives with two distinct perspectives on woman. In the first, Adam and Eve were created together in God’s image and jointly given instructions to multiply and to be stewards over everything else that God had made.
In the second narrative, which is much more detailed, God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden where he is to have dominion over the plants and animals. God places a tree in the garden which he prohibits Adam from eating. Eve is later created to be Adam’s companion.
During the week, two men were celebrated as France’s same-sex married couple. Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau went to town to talk about their love story. The pair exchanged vows at a ceremony in the Town Hall in the southern city of Montpellier in front of hundreds of specially invited guests as well as world media.
Interestingly, the event came a few days after the controversial same-sex bill was signed into law. The mayor of Montpellier, Hélène Mandroux, officiated in what was dubbed as the marriage of the century.
The big question, however, is if these lovebirds would be able to sleep on their honeymoon bed with both eyes closed. Well from the signs here, it may be Herculean. There was a tight security presence inside the Town Hall and on the streets outside, after fierce opponents, involved in recent violence protests against gay marriage, could target the event.
The couple, Autin, 40, and Boileau, 30, had to be escorted by the police from their hotel into the Town Hall where they were greeted by well wishers but were also jeered by some opponents of same-sex unions.
For many year and centuries the old arrangement (male and female) was adhered to. Unfortunately, we have a number of emotional rebels around and they have redesigned the love idea to involve ‘two dry bones’ mingling together?
Benefits? Well, yours truly cannot really see one; it takes a participant observer to confirm the benefits. But from a distance, you could almost say that it’s likely to be borne out of frustration, rebellion and the dire need to prove to the rest of us that one group can do without the other. Kissing with kissers that are dry and unattractive. Nobody is blushing in the arrangement and nothing soft to touch.
For many, there is indeed a moral question hanging in the balance. It actually goes further down the emotional lane with no clues on how they are going to dot their emotional i’s as well as cross the t’s.
Oh dear! What is also going to happen to the injunction to go into the world and multiply? Won’t the humans go into extinction if everybody decides to toe this line? Or could this be their way of phasing the next and subsequent generations out. Questions and more questions.
The bottom line, however, is that it is a matter of choice. Is the marriage institution on the verge of collapse? No, it isn’t. People are just reorganising their emotional scale of preference and putting things of value in boxes. The truth, therefore, is that some trends and fads are likely to fade out.
Once you find the bone of your bones, marriage experts say it’s good for your health. Married people live longer, enjoy a more satisfying sex life, experience less stress, live a healthier lifestyle, and have lower rates of heart diseases, diabetes and depression compared to their single counterparts.
Revelations explain that a man’s sex life is likely to improve more than a woman’s after getting married, for instance, while a woman’s risk for depression tends to decrease more than her partner’s when she’s in a long-term relationship.
Women and men can reap some health benefits just by living together, or even by being in a stable long-term relationship, research suggests. Experts believe that same-sex couples, many of whom don’t even have the option to get married, also score health gains, though almost all research so far has focused only on heterosexual relationships.
Research has also gone to prove that marriage offers the ultimate health benefit: a longer life. Compared to their unwed counterparts, married people have longer average life spans and are drastically less likely to die at an early age. The link between marriage and longevity is much stronger among husbands than wives, however.
Although people love to complain that their significant others are driving them crazy, companionship actually tends to be good for mental health especially for women. This is particularly true when it comes to depression, which is roughly twice as common in women.
They also argue that being in a solid relationship actually tends to be good for your sex life (at least for the first decade or two). Married and cohabiting couples both have more sex than people who are single or dating, and married people in particular report more satisfying sex lives than their counterparts who are dating or shacking up.