....why not? You can sleep with these women, have babies for these women, make these women provide you shelter then why is marriage such a biggie, even at the conceptual level. I knew one hypocrite who used to talk about marriage being associated to white people but this was just an excuse to mask his promiscuous lifestyle. Is this what it is really all about, marriage stops you from the freedom of sleeping around...what is it about your woman that makes you share everything apart from the ring...are you just with her for the sake of the children?