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Wall Street Journal > Is Monogamy Natural to Us?

JustAGuy

JustAGuy

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I liked their conclusion:
Wall Street Journal said:
...So by these various biological measures, are humans a pair-bonding or a tournament species? Neither. Across populations, men are roughly 10% taller and 20% heavier than women, need 20% more calories and live 6% shorter—more sexually dimorphic than monogamous species, less than polygamous species. Moreover, compared with, say, monogamous gibbons, human males have bigger testes and higher sperm counts…but pale in comparison to polygamous chimps. Measure after measure, it's the same.

It turns out that we aren't monogamous or polygamous by nature. As everyone from poets to divorce attorneys can attest, we are by nature a profoundly confused species—somewhere in between. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304104504579374872476645630
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May I suggest that enforced monogamy may be what causes the confusion?

When a man knows that poly is possible, I think that his thinking is slightly altered even if he never does live it. Of course in some men, being that they are jerks, the option makes them bigger jerks.
 
steve said:
Of course in some men, being that they are jerks, the option makes them bigger jerks.
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True, but at least there will be plenty of opportunities for the first woman to warn off the others. And, of course, will ALL men being available, women can afford to be a lot more descriminating in who they join with. One of the biggest and most ignored pro-woman aspects of polygamy.

Imagine an Angie's List for Men. LOL
 
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