Fair points. Perhaps my phrasing was needlessly agressive. I didn't mean to label individual personal choices as 'arcane'. Rather, it's the social/cultural norm that I find suboptimal. (Also, the economic connotations…
That is an interesting way to look at it. Thank you for the reading suggestions! However it seems to me that this is only a problem for 'exclusive' polygamy, of which, one might say, traditional monogamy is just a…
It's certainly a personal decision, and I agree that there is no reason to make negative value judgments about two consenting adults deciding to uphold a (happy) monogamous remationship model. But the overwhelming…
Having only read the 'reception' part of the wiki article, especially about 'Sex at Dawn' 's allegedly sloppy methodology.. do you happen to know of any book(s) with similarly 'non-standard' views of human sexuality,…
I wish social experimentation and progress happened at even 5% of the speed of technological progress.. why don't we just get rid of the idea that you 'own' your partner's body? It seems arcane and based in insecurity.…
I think part of the problem in the US is the general attitude towards sex. It's some sort of monstrous bastard child born from Puritanism and Feminism. The moral panic around 'sexual harrasment' is a good example. The…
Fair points. Perhaps my phrasing was needlessly agressive. I didn't mean to label individual personal choices as 'arcane'. Rather, it's the social/cultural norm that I find suboptimal. (Also, the economic connotations…
That is an interesting way to look at it. Thank you for the reading suggestions! However it seems to me that this is only a problem for 'exclusive' polygamy, of which, one might say, traditional monogamy is just a…
It's certainly a personal decision, and I agree that there is no reason to make negative value judgments about two consenting adults deciding to uphold a (happy) monogamous remationship model. But the overwhelming…
Having only read the 'reception' part of the wiki article, especially about 'Sex at Dawn' 's allegedly sloppy methodology.. do you happen to know of any book(s) with similarly 'non-standard' views of human sexuality,…
I wish social experimentation and progress happened at even 5% of the speed of technological progress.. why don't we just get rid of the idea that you 'own' your partner's body? It seems arcane and based in insecurity.…
I think part of the problem in the US is the general attitude towards sex. It's some sort of monstrous bastard child born from Puritanism and Feminism. The moral panic around 'sexual harrasment' is a good example. The…