Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Couple

I took a couple to the airport this morning from Wisconsin. They were talking to other people on the shuttle and I was listening. The woman remarked that she and her husband cohabited before they married.

I hearkened to this free, unashamed, unabashed admission. There was a time in Minnesota when a young woman in Minnesota would not broadcast freely to total strangers that she had sex with her boyfriend before he became her fiancee and future husband. The shocked audience 75 years ago would have recoiled in horror and shunned her as a wanton harlot.

So low have our moral standards now become that her breezy announcement caused no more of a ripple than if she said was enjoyed a cup of coffee.

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