RE: Is long term monogamy unnatural for human beings?
April 2, 2018 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2018 at 12:12 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 2, 2018 at 11:42 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: The more I look into it, the more convinced I am that long-term monogamy is, in fact, unnatural
Yes I would say that polygamy is "more natural" if by that we mean "more common in non-civilized humans" and monogamy is more of a construct of civilization. But I still think it's a bit of both.
I'd say we're mostly polygamous though, as most animals are. We're just able to form stronger romantic bonds than other animals so that leads to us sticking with one person for a long while, sometimes, before the relationship inevitably fails eventually. Unlike with swans!
Our romance drive and sexual drive seems to clash with each other. So I'd say that's why we're a mixture of polygamy and monogamy for the most part.
I'd say that we're overall most likely romantically monogamous but sexually polygamous.
