This started off as a comment to "Making Up for Missing Out," but I decided to turn it into a post.

From the comments on MUfMO:

"'Why is divornography (divorce pornography) marketed exclusively to women?'"

I remember going to a health-club in an affluent suburb a few years ago and noticing "Divorce Magazine" in the lobby. I won't link to it below, but if you Google it, you'll find it quickly. Take a look at the website.

As you can see, there are women exclusively on 2 out of the 4 covers featured. A third has the woman's face prominently featured. The one with a man and woman has the headline, "Should you be friends with your ex." Obviously, the people behind this magazine are divorce lawyers. They pooled their money and created this magazine so they can market to their target audience: people unhappy in their marriages, but primarily women, I'd wager.

At the time, I had not found TRP, however, I was slowly unplugging myself due to my intellectual curiosity, and whenever I encountered something significant, it would stick with me and I'd experience an eery sensation as part of the process, like a scene in a murder mystery, where the lead investigator glances up significantly upon finding a clue. To me, finding "Divorce Magazine," even though I wasn't its target audience, was one of those moments because then I realized that there were organized well-funded groups that were actually working round the clock to foment divorce. I suddenly envisioned bored housewives sitting around, furtively reading articles, stewing on them, and then gradually building up towards blowing up their marriages. I recall the cover I looked at insinuating that the woman would be a lot happier once she divorced. Thinking back to women that I knew who had divorced, I knew this to not be true.

I looked at one of the articles just now and it begins with an example of a woman who is married to a great man; he's a great provider and father . . . but she just doesn't love him. The second example is man who is leading a double life because he's a sex addict. Interesting method of framing things there.

Anyway, the take-away from this is that there is an entire for-profit based industry out there that eagerly looks to maximize the destruction of marriages for fun and profit. This industry will do everything in its power to foment divorce. If you are seeing something in the mass media about divorce, in all likelihood this industry may have had a hand in it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they pay screen-writers to inject divorce positive tropes into the storylines they create. This is something that other groups with other agendas are already doing for population control purposes. It has been written about online. In third world countries where the birth rate is too high, these institutions lobby for soap operas to have storylines where women opt out of motherhood and aim for a career instead; the lure being exposure to more high value men in the workplace.