While many people are afraid to seriously touch the subject of legalizing prostitution, least of all any consideration of the need for lady’s clubs as well as gentlemen’s clubs columnist Herb Benham’s idea of renting or leasing a husband hits pretty close. So close I have to wonder if Herb… But say Herb was being serious; the idea has a lot of merit. Take Mary Graber’s column for example: “51% of women want to be Playboy Bunnies. Much has been made of a recent New York Times article reporting that now a majority (51%) of women live alone. According to the Times, women are now living with their cats and lovin’ it!”

Now what Mary should have done is closet with Herb and me. In combination Mary would realize the merit of Herb’s and my suggestions; that the majority of women may not be satisfied as either Playboy Bunnies or living alone with a cat, but find these a better alternative than a husband. However, I believe many women would far rather have a lady’s club to relieve sexual frustration as an alternative to marriage, one that would have the additional benefit of incorporating Herb’s excellent suggestion of renting or leasing a “husband.” Some women like to have a man around the house. But if he turns out to be a loser or tiresome, if you simply want an upgrade trade him in. Or maybe you just want to be alone for a while; then simply take the “rental” back. The same would be equally true for gentlemen’s clubs; but in the case of the clubs I’m suggesting, civilized and friendly places where there is no commitment or recrimination you needn’t take the woman or the man home with you. Sounds good to me. And what is “serial monogamy” but a form of prostitution, and often a much more costly form.

In the Norman Rockwell America I knew as a boy marriage was all about commitment and fidelity; a life partner with whom you started a family and raised children, someone with whom you could grow old together, the two becoming one and staying together as one as per the Biblical injunction. No longer— that America no longer exists. All the fabled stories and films, all that had to do with love and romance in connection with love and marriage has given place to no-fault divorce, a nanny government, and breeding for a welfare check without any commitment or thought to the future for babies born into hopelessness.

Perhaps if arranged marriages had been a part of the American culture, marriages that could count on strong family ties, support and common values that might have been the better course. While aristocrats, the nobility in some cultures made sure marriage partners were suitable for each other, such arranged marriages have not been a part of American culture for the masses. And even here in America, among some groups the professional matchmaker had an honorable position, not that of the Internet where people lie as a matter of course.

But for a host of reasons, the lines defining the roles of men and women in America have become so blurred as to make the biological distinctions of no moment. Much of this has to do with women intruding into male domains like police and firefighters, into the military and political correctness together with the universities and their product politicians, judges, and media forbids any protest of such things. Women can now have babies without a man, abortion as a means of contraception is sanctioned by law, same sex “marriages” are being demanded by some groups, both men and women flaunt having babies without benefit of marriage and this has become so acceptable in America as to make any commitment to a marriage virtually passé. That millions of children now do not have the benefit of both a mother and father in the home seems of little or no consequence in America today; and most certainly does not carry the moral stigma that was once attached to such a thing. Men and women now cohabit without benefit of marriage, they have children out of wedlock, the lesbian daughter of our Vice-President can have a baby without the benefit of either marriage or a man, not offering anything like a stable home with both mother and father for the resulting baby and one would now be considered “prudish” if voicing any disagreement with such things.

And we may as well speak openly of the fact that children and their future are not relevant to American society. The truth of this is so blatantly obvious as to need no comment. For children to have the best prospects of growing up with a future and becoming good citizens, productive members of society with good moral standards requires a stable home with a mother and a father. Such homes are becoming increasingly scarce in America, and our whole society is suffering from this loss.

However, wishful thinking will not turn back the clock to the America of Norman Rockwell. So, to accept America for what it has become those “social clubs,” the legalizing of prostitution seems by far the most sensible and civilized alternative to marriage. And given the legal morass marriage and family has become, especially with no fault divorce which virtually never has the concern for the welfare of children in view who needs the grief?

Some may smile at elderly couples getting together without the benefit of marriage because they would be penalized financially if they should marry. So, “living in sin” becomes the alternative for some senior citizens. But this is no less the case for younger couples facing many of the same financial difficulties of marriage.

America has become such a social witch’s brew of laws, lawyers, and courts as to make marriage and children fraught with so many obstacles together with a nanny government aiding and abetting the lunacy of it all I don’t wonder many men and women have simply thrown in the towel. Who needs the grief?

But given the facts of the case, it is well known it takes a superior culture to support marriage and family, to limit births to only the number of children that can be provided for. And here is where America is facing a very real threat from Mexico. With millions of illegal aliens having babies in America and our nanny government supporting these illegal aliens and their babies with the money extorted from the legitimate citizens of America through taxation without representation there has to be a reckoning for such lunacy. We can look at the third world nations in Africa, at Mexico where the indiscriminate breeding resulting in multiplied millions of unproductive mouths demanding to be fed by the productive is threatening famine and disease of horrendous proportions.

Birth control is the prerogative of only the most civilized nations. This is why Mexico sends its citizens to America by the millions. Mexico will not teach birth control, will not provide for its own citizens. That corrupt nation will send its citizens to America to be supported. But just try to get Mexicans in America to practice birth control. Not when We the People are extorted to pay for the resulting babies, and at the expense of the future for our own children. That the wealthy in both America and Mexico profit from this slave labor makes any political solutions to the problem all but impossible. Kern County suffers mightily from supporting illegal aliens with eight children on welfare, these illegal aliens looking for a “better life” at the expense of legitimate American citizens thanks to a Federal Triune Dictatorship favoring the wealthy benefiting from slave labor.

An honest discussion of marriage and family, even of legalizing prostitution can only be had with civilized people. I don’t expect such an honest discussion with those that believe illegal aliens are good for America. Marriage and family are expensive propositions for the legitimate citizens of America. But when a nanny government steps in to support illegal aliens at the expense of legitimate American citizens, this has not a little to do with why so many are giving up on marriage.

I haven’t switched topics here; many of you will understand the connection between the suggested social clubs and things like Mexico invading America wholesale. The tearing of the fabric of American culture, the loss of the “glue” holding America together by a national identity based on a common heritage, culture, language and secure borders can only spell the end of an America honoring and supporting marriage and family with the needed values to keep America a nation offering hope of a future to our children.

Take a look around us today. Are we to be defined by “Press one for English,” or a nation with a genuine identity as a nation based on a common heritage, culture, language and secure borders? And if we have been betrayed of our identity as a nation, how in God’s name are we to have strong families, the foundation of America supporting American ideals? The very idea you can have a nation of “Press one for English” and support an American identity is preposterous! The chance of legalizing prostitution has far better odds. And, in my opinion, would serve America far better.