SIECUS Report articles from January 2005

SIECUS Report archives from January 2005

Marriage: institution or relationship?(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... The summer that I was 24, I went to twelve weddings. In the years that followed, it seemed like every other weekend my partner and I grabbed a gift from Crate & Barrel, packed our fancy clothes, and traveled to a rustic inn, banquet hall, or...

Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation.(BOOK EXCERPT)(Excerpt)
January 1, 2005... Editor's Note: In pulling together this issue of the SIECUS Report, we thought it was important to take a closer look at the history of marriage in order to help us understand why what we often consider a private relationship is subject to so...

Ending marriage discrimination: America in a civil rights moment.
January 1, 2005... The Library of America's two-volume anthology, Reporting Civil Rights, collected the journalism of the 1940's, '50's, '60's, and '70's, which together described what the day-to-day struggles of those years felt and looked like before those...

To have and to hold: congressional vows on marriage and sex.
January 1, 2005... Despite some history together, Marriage First and Then Sex were divorced in 1960, the year the Pill went to market. Traditional marriage has not been the same since. In some measure this is because the effective use of contraceptive technology...

Saying "I don't".(A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE)
January 1, 2005... When I was a sophomore in college, I realized that marriage was not for me. I can recall the moment when this idea crystallized: I was having a conversation with a friend who was struggling with how to come out to her family. She was upset,...