Recognized as a guide on how to achieve the perfect swinging marriage, Ms. Perutz suggests a totally new approach to: conventional sex, fidelity, monogamy, parenthood and the entire institution of marriage. She describes it as is an essay on the institution of marriage as it exists today in the West, particularly in America. It deals with the anachronism of marriage, its false expectations, its imprisonment of personality and distortion of both privacy and personal liberty. The book, which is strongly opinionated, attacks marriage from many perspectives - legal, historical, anthropological, sexual - and then goes on to suggest reform and finally a turning that will make marriage possible again. I consciously tried to keep the style loose and colloquial, the better to let readers argue with me, and literary experiment is superseded in this book by political, or pragmatic, aims. Publication Data: Originally published in hardback in 1972 in the USA as 'Marriage is Hell' by William Morrow and simultaneously in the UK in hardback as 'Marriage Fallacy' by Hodder & Stoughton with ISBN 0340163496.
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