The Impacts Of Premarital Sex And Cohabitation On Marriage

Phat (Kevin) Phan English 1302 Professor Randall Watson December 8th, 2014 The Impacts of Premarital Sex and Cohabitation on Marriage Becoming popular from the 1950s until now, premarital sex and premarital cohabitation have been considered as the norms in the United States. While most people agree that premarital sex is one of the ways to find out whether the couple is perfect for each other, others incline its consequences. Because the United States is described as the Salad Bowl, in which numerous ethnicities, religions, and cultures are not assimilable, it exists some different perceptions about sex out of marriage. By reviewing the reasons and pointing the consequences of having sex and living together before marriage, it is obvious†¦show more content†¦Defending the judgment that premarital sex and cohabitation is acceptable and permissible, people who had sex before their marriage or just agree with it expound some reasons. First of all, living together and sex outside marriage have been increasing because of social pressure. In a community, a person who does not follow common norms is abnormal. Acc ording to the research in 2011, Mashau learned that a person would be seen as stupid, rural, and sophisticated without participating in premarital sex as his/her peers. It means that some people might neither agree nor disagree with premarital sex, yet they try to ‘simulate’ what most people do in order to be ‘normal’. Giving another reason to protect their opinion, people believe having sex and living together before marriage help them be ready for marriage. Marriage is the most important event in a person’s life; thus, everyone wants to find a fitting spouse with whom they are going to live in the rest of the life. They worried a wrong decision will destroy their marriage, even their life. The contribution of premarital sex and cohabitation is a suitable choice which not only helps the couples understand each other but also gets their relationship closer. The couples believe engaging in sex and living together before marriage are the processes whic h they are more likely experience the needs of marriage than the couples did not. As a result, the couples that think they