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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Men don't "need" to get married to the extent they did in the past. Notwithstanding women's complaints about men not doing housework, modern appliances make it feasible for a single man to live on his own and take care of his home by himself. Food prep services and takeout can fill in for those without culinary skills. Most men don't need to get married to have sex. Porn can help fill in the gaps for some.[/quote]
Chores, appliances, and sex are all women are good for, huh? What are men good for?[/quote]

No, but food and shelter are real needs. During hunter-gatherer times no one lived alone. Being banished to live alone meant almost certain death. Before modern times people lived in groups often married because no one could support and take of themselves on a farm alone.

In early industrial times (1880s-1940s) men who worked in factories or offices still needed someone to cook, make their clothes, wash their clothes. Single men often rented a room that included "room and board" because taking care of appliances and feeding one's self without modern appliances is too time consuming.

People can and do live alone quite happily nowadays.

Of course women can provide companionship and love, although one can get that through family and friends too.

So men (and women) don't need to get married nowadays. And many don't, explaining the numbers OP presented.[/quote]
Who do you expect to read this random screed? I asked what men are good for. Do you have an answer?[/quote]

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