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It obviously can work, forms of non-monogamy have been long term stable in many societies, there are negative consequences though. Notably, it invariably resul
by faeriechangling 3y ago
It obviously can work, forms of non-monogamy have been long term stable in many societies, there are negative consequences though.
Notably, it invariably results in more single men, more crime/societal instability, generally makes gender inequality more extreme, and results in less people doing parental duties.
From a "natural selection" point of view though it's probably a superior modality to monogamy, and monogamy is only really enforced through oppression in practice.
For what it's worth, polyamory might correlate to higher status within a society, across societies higher levels of polyamory correlate to lower status of that society.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoI think a lot of these statements come from reasoning from first principles. It’s not so clear cut. For example, I’m a parent who does a lot of parental duties. It doesn’t result in more crime or societal instability for people to have multiple partners.
- faeriechangling 3y ago>It doesn’t result in more crime or societal instability for people to have multiple partners. Sure it does. It tends to result in more single men and it's the single men who end up causing all the disorder.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThere’s currently a single men epidemic, yet polyamory is a rounding error in terms of popularity. I’d be interested in evidence to the contrary, but it seems doubtful that multiple partners would cause the problems you mention.
- acdha 3y agoThat doesn’t address the cause: is the disorder actually caused by being single or do the same traits which are unappealing to potential partners also responsible?