I'm starting to realize that many of our troubles flow from the notion in the minds of human society that people are inherently evil.  The major religious dogmas are rife with this notion.  Thus the need for coercive behavior management.  Thus, the development of the traditional notions of commitment and marriage since irresponsible men and women can never be trusted to be faithful without some sort of binding coercive covenant of obligation.  The problem follows the same natural laws as government.  In the hands of certain people it becomes a tool to maintain a predatory relationship to the benefit of one party in the covenant.  It would seem that without this covenant each side would need to maintain continual mutual benefit in the relationship, and it would be more likely to be a good thing.

I'm going to add this to my Plenty-of-Fish profile.  Ha!!!  I'll never get another response again!