ANTHROPOCENTRIC AETIOLOGY OF CERTAIN MARRIAGE TYPES: NEED FOR THE REVIEW OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION LAW IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The concept and practice of same sex marriage have been of grave concern to opinion leaders, politicians, legal luminaries and all forms of custodians of conscience. Marriage is a sacred institution understood from time immemorial to be generally between people of the opposite sex. Any attempt to determine otherwise has often been met with revulsion and repulsion. This is because same sex marriage has often been mistaken to necessarily indicate and/or include same sex sexual relationship. The author in this work has attempted to elucidate the fact that same sex marriages particularly same sex woman-to-woman marriages do not necessarily tantamount to same sex sexual relationship. Examples of societies where same sex woman-to-woman marriages are practiced, devoid of any mutual sexual, insinuations were given and reasons for such marriages explained. Origins of such marriages and their unequivocal acceptance and adoption by the communities concerned were proffered.