Marriage guides discussing the sex act often claimed that a woman in a sexually satisfying relationship was more likely to become pregnant, as the wife's orgasm was just as necessary to conception as her husband's.
In a gay-marriage guide more focus would of course be on testosterone-driven sex and affairs.
The narrator of "The Dog of the Marriage" trains guide dogs: "I work with these dogs every day, and their capability, their decency, shames me".
If you want to permit your second husband to live in the family home until he dies, but then guarantee that the house reverts to the children of your first marriage, the guide tells you how a "life estate" works.
And in Putney, John Humphrey Noyes, a "magnetic, elusive, and provocative" religious fanatic, wrote in 1847 that " 'there is no more reason why sexual intercourse should be restrained by law, than why eating and drinking should be' " and "led his followers from communism of property, through communism of households, to communism of love, or, as he called it, complex marriage," the guide said.
Cimber took over the management of her career during their marriage, and guided her through a series of increasingly tawdry projects like Promises, Promises and The Las Vegas Hillbillys.
(So will gay divorce, if the experience of straight marriage is any guide).
The embassy has prepared a short guide, "Marriage Formalities in Spain," for Americans; it can be obtained by visiting the embassy in Madrid and inquiring about marriage in Spain.
About 3,000 tons of leaves are annually transformed into around 600 tons of tea here, some of which is sold to the prestigious Paris-based brand Marriage Frères, a guide explained during a tour of the adjacent factory.
The clan and süök social structures that helped to guide marriage practices lost importance, although patrilineal customs prevailed.
