In this post-Freudian age the institution of marriage, as a by-product of religiously-fuelled monogamy, has deteriorated to the point that amorphous sexual identity, as opposed to rigid religiosity, has become the primary self-defining feature of the individual.But has anything changed?Has the entrapment of woman via marriage which Blake called a “gilded cage” merely deteriorated to the “rusty prison” of the Bang Bus, representative of the anonymous male-centric sex and continued subjugation?