The torque applied to marriages now is unprecedented: the speed of travel, of electronic simulation, the cultural crosshatch and dissolution, diverse titillation and rudderless liberation, the no-fault method of reckoning everything, changing jobs like a suit of clothes. Adultery is not biblical, but "acting out." "My Sweet Erasable You." Nothing is binding or even binary, not sexuality or ethics.
— Edward Hoagland, Compass Points