1625. But who lives here in one hundred per cent compliance with the morality of the plane of marriage? Marriage as an official institution is universal, but compliance with the traditional "Christian" morality of marriage is hardly so universal. Is marriage not in the same situation as the established church? Membership of the established church is common, but who complies with the moral precepts of this church? Who goes to church every Sunday? Who curses places of entertainment, dance halls and nightlife or other places and traditions that are disreputable according to "Christian" precepts? Indeed, legal matrimony, with its wedding ceremonies, is to a great extent merely an outer arrangement, which in many cases is merely a prelude to divorce. When the divorce rate sometimes rises to 40 per cent, it does not look as if "the man is leaving his father and his mother, and cleaving unto his wife" with whom he was to be "one flesh", just as little as it looks as if the woman's "desire" is for the man she is married to and who should "rule" over her. Nor do the numerous marriages that divorcees enter into indicate respect for the traditional moral command that states: "whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery". And who knows the true peak of marital happiness at any other time than during the brief period of authorised marriage we call the "honeymoon"? Is the remaining period of a lifelong marriage not in many cases more an enforced connection between the two parties than a voluntary one based on there being children of the marriage and out of fear of people's opinion or scandal, financial reasons perhaps also playing a decisive role? And finally there is also an extraordinarily great number of terrestrial human beings who do not seek a "church wedding", but seek merely the blessing of a mayor or other civil authority, quite apart from the hundreds of couples that simply "go out with one another" for a while, until their life together becomes boring and they each "go out" with a new sexual partner, and so on continuously. And what about prostitution? Is it not sometimes to be found camouflaged as marriage? Does one not imagine that there are cases in which the woman in the marriage is looking for a financial provider rather than a spouse, and cases in which the husband in the marriage is in the same way looking for a "rich heiress" rather than a wife? And what about official prostitution, where men and women have turned the sexual principles into a way of earning a living? Where does such a being stand? These examples of deviations from the traditional ecclesiastical morality of marriage are presented here not in order to reproach the various people in these above-mentioned sexual situations, but solely in order to show that marriage is not, and can no longer be, the unshakeable secure foundation of life for all human beings.