>>9813753I am not pro-marriage, since I truly could never see myself as a husband, or even raising children. Anyway...
>sex is available outside marriageTrue. Yet marriage provides a stable fuckmate, in most cases, though it can get boring after years and years.
>marriage does not guarantee someone being faithfulIf you manage to get to the marriage with your couple, then loyalty is almost secured. Obviously not guaranteed, as you said, but at that stage is not highly probable to be cheated unless you are a useless bastard or having the bad luck of wedding a whore (if that is the case, why the fuck would you marriage her?).
>children can be raised without marriageAye, but a good marriage is the best environment for any child while growing up.
>everything that was once exclusive to marriage is now achievable outside it>wedding>ring>contractFollowing the first statement, if you want to be connected with your beloved, there is no actual need for being legally married: better being unofficially together by word, preventing contracts, and etc.
Even there is no need to be married in a church, you could just do a cheap, DIY, but awesome ceremony in your backyard, in some countryside area, or whatever.
As I said, I don't like the idea of being married, but that doesn't mean everything is bad.
And at the marriage point, if you choose some girl that you don't like to be with, then your are 200% stupid.