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If I'm cherry-picking, you're strictly appealing to emotion. Are you suggesting that the gay population, which is between 2-6% of Americans, plenty of whom are
by OtterCoder 9y ago
If I'm cherry-picking, you're strictly appealing to emotion. Are you suggesting that the gay population, which is between 2-6% of Americans, plenty of whom are also monogamous (75% of male homosexuals, by recent estimates), are a major factor in a 10% uptick in infidelity in the general population?
Are you possibly suggesting that abuse never gets inflicted on prostitutes, and that reducing them to human chattel, as their bodies are bought and sold, has improved their lot?
- jacobolus 9y agoYou’re missing my point, which is that there have been radical cultural shifts in the past 50 years which have completely transformed expectations about sex, relationships, family life, careers, etc. The old pattern might have had less infidelity (though I wouldn’t be surprised if available data about past prevalence of infidelity is inaccurate and unreliable), but it also had many other severe social problems, some of which have improved substantially between 1970 and today. A culture (and the laws, mores, economic relationships, etc. which enforce it) isn’t a simple system that you can poke in a particular way and get a clear and simple result out.
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