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Human Enhancement

Love and Other Drugs

Brian D. Earp explains how chemical enhancement could save your marriage.

What do you do when your marriage lasts less than two months? That was the predicament faced by Natasha Nelson, a thirty-five-year-old public relations executive, after she found out that her brand-new husband had been carrying on a relationship with his ex-girlfriend: throughout their ten month courtship, throughout their engagement, and even after the wedding. ‘Til death do us part’ indeed. Six weeks into ‘happily ever after’, Natasha filed for divorce.

Marriage is a mixed-up institution. On the one hand it represents a lifelong, monogamous relationship ideal to which many people still cheerfully aspire.

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