Michael Kimmel - Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he

Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job is to get him to capitulate to marriage. So many men see marriage as the "end of freedom," the end of boyhood. That's why bachelor parties are supposed to revel in that boyish irresponsibility "one last time." So many guys figure, "Why rush into something that means basically that you'll be a prisoner forever?"

- Michael Kimmel

source: "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.