transcription: just saw a straight woman CONFIDENTLY say lesbian marriage isnt a real marriage its just “two best friends who get each other off” and like bestie, idk what has gone wrong in your life but thats exactly what marriage is supposed to be, regardless of the genders involved. as opposed to real marriage, where you have two people who dislike each other and dont get each other off.
That might be true if both families are wealthy enough for one to have a dowry to give and the other relationships worth giving a dowry for. That would not be 99% of people.
Marriage was actually imposed by society. It was a way to communicate that you are responsible enough to bring a child into the world, instead of creating another fatherless child who would become an economic liability for the entire village and likely grow to become a criminal, if not starved in the cold before then.
Before society developed the economics to at least partially take care of fatherless children, the entire village would rightly bash your head in if they found you were having sex without being married. Because society tends to dislike starving children.
Society could only take care of so many orphans. In rural areas they might have no institutions for that. Even one orphan or unwed mother could be an impossible problem. But they could reduce the orphan load 10:1 if they simply threaten the people creating the problem.