Cohabitation

Cohabitation is either easy or impossible.

As far as cohabitation is concerned, obviously gay couples have to have the right to this too.

For whether it's about marriage or about unmarried cohabitation, the institution of marriage resulted from the need to protect the children and the woman, and to ensure the reproduction and perpetuation of the species.

At the same time, it was found that while men tended to soften with time and cohabitation, women become increasingly aggressive.

So ended many years of cohabitation by two people who, in the beginning, truly loved each other.

According to Greene, sodomy, gross indecency, adultery, cohabitation and repeated convictions for indecent exposure are all considered sex offenses in Michigan.

Commentators agreed that Mr Chirac's unusually aggressive remarks, followed by the equally fierce response of Mr Jospin's government, signalled the beginning of the end for the tense but so far civil "cohabitation" under which the two men have ruled France since 1997.

She said: “I am respectful of institutions; I am not calling for institutional chaos. There will simply be a cohabitation.”