Re: Deleterious effects of arranged marriage
The problem with arranged marriage is that with the guarantee of a mate there's no need for a flabby couch-potato to get up and make himself attractive (and vice versa, although it usually benefits men).
It's also very unflattering to women. Men should have to SEEK women by courting them. That's what romance is all about! Women want to be chased by a number of men, and no pleasure is more sublime for a woman that to have a number of men fight with each other for her hand. With arranged marriage, the spontaneity and gracefulness of seduction and romance disappears; it becomes a contrived affair managed by parents and other older people.
Seduction is all about suggestion and indirection, i.e. never revealing your plans and intentions. That is why it's exciting for the woman who is being seduced. In arranged marriage on the other hand, the woman knows that the man is there for marriage: this knowledge on her part drains the exercise of all pleasure. Woe unto those who give up the excitement and challenge of romance for the banal comforts of parent-arranged nuptials!
was it inspired by some novel :D