Future Of Marriage Examined

Some quick thoughts on the magazine front:

The summer On the Issues - The Progressive Woman’s Quarterly checks out nothing less than “The Future of Love,” finding that despite the pressure for monogamous pairings inspired by fear of AIDS, youthful marriage hasn’t made any big comeback. It also finds tremendous unease about marriages among the older women who serve as a new generation’s role models, having been through feminist and social upheavals of recent decades.

And June Fitness has “Love Among the Exercycles.” It’s a funny tale of the gym becoming Romance Central, profiling a Chicago couple who met at the East Bank Club and then married, as well as passing along confessions of a personal trainer who broke the big unwritten rule by having a crush on a client and trying to act on it.