Well I'm glad you feel qualified to criticise an article you haven't even read.
You seem to be heading into another of those unfortunate directions which leads you to extoll the virtues of a man who blackmails cancer charities.
You are now arguing that it is a bad thing that the state or people's parents no longer arrange their marriages, that women are no longer considered mere extensions of their husbands and that women are no longer automatically assumed to be obliged to provide their husband with sexual favours on demand.
Is that actually your position?
TTFN,
WK
P.S. If you use firefox then the Bug-me-not extension could obviate many of your news service registration hassles, including for the NY Times site.