Katherine Frank argues persuasively that the “marital safety narrative” creates its own demise. When a couple tries to safeguard their relationship through various forms of surveillance and self-policing, they risk setting themselves up for the exact opposite: the “enhanced eroticization of transgressions.”4 The more we try to suppress our primal longings, the more forcefully we may rebel.
The more we try to suppress our primal longings, the more forcefully we may rebel.
