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crsm345
9y ago
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 connotatio
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crsm345
9y ago
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 subtype (the ad
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crsm345
9y ago
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 dominance of this par
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crsm345
9y ago
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
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9y ago
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