Posted on 06/18/2006 3:59:27 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
The biggest fiction behind James Bond is that the fantasy master spy and world-class heartbreaker lived past 40-something. It’s not just the death traps and vodka martinis, or even the three packs of cigarettes a day, that would have shortened his life. His naked ring finger would have too. Because real men need wives.
Consider the data: Married men—regardless of age, sex, race, income or education—consistently have been found to be healthier than men who are single, divorced or widowed. This so-called “marriage benefit” begins to kick in right after the wedding, then builds. Husbands ages 18 to 44 are strikingly healthier than bachelors of the same age. At every age, in fact, marriage not only protects men’s health but also prolongs their lives. So, what’s behind this marriage benefit?
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And here I thought I was the only one.
Married men don't live longer, it just seems longer
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>Get em preggers, and once there are a few rugrats in the picture being seen and going out to dinner regularly falls way down on the priority list.<
Once ectogenesis is perfected, women won't be needed at all. Right now, they are the only way to make sons, but when that changes, women will become redundant and vanish from a perfect all-male society perpetuated in vitro.
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