I have started reading Sex at Dawn. I have been flirting with the idea of being in a non-monogamous relationship. I truely think it is the best way to have a relationship and it completely makes sense to me. What doesn't make as much sense to me is how to unlearn the "normal" emotions that are tangled into a monogamous relationship. Jealously. Possession. Etc.
Here is an excerpt that made a lot of sense to me:
No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied-including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how monogamy comes "naturally" to our species. Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers-even presidential legacies-for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.
All I want to do in my spare time is snowboard.
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