Martin Regnen poses a controversial question this week:

The primary purpose of marriage is and has always been to reduce violence between men competing for mates. Westerners are much less violent than we were only a few hundred years ago, and other peoples possibly are as well. We are far less likely to die by violence. Have we become so nonviolent and orderly that marriage has lost its raison d'etre? Would marriage still be going strong in spite of the easy availability of birth control and employment for women if trying to kill your wife's lover were normal behavior?

Read his latest column: The Bloody Roots Of Tradition