University of Maryland economics professor Melissa Kearney’s excellent book The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling has sparked enough pundit pontificating that Politico recently hosted a Zoom discussion with four “marriage experts” to discuss “Why is the Pundit Class Suddenly So Marriage-Obsessed?“

Do read the whole thing, but I was most taken with the fact that other than some references to “same-sex” couples, the word “sex” is never mentioned. Considering that a large part of marriage consists of regulating who gets to have sex with whom, I found the absence telling.