Pair bonding. A concept offered up by Ashly Montague. I don't think that many women would be thrilled with polygamy. They do much better with serial relationships.
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 12:38 pm Subject: Re: Climate models On 4/15/2014 1:59 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Poligamy is common when big disparity of wealt, in low density coutries in harsh conditions or in societies where violence is increasing Do you thing that these conditions are in the aspirations of the civilized society?. The fact that we are towards it. I think that the aspiration of civilisation should be to allow humans to dream and transcend their current condition. I imagine a more advances civilisation being much less concerned with sexual norms. Polygamy, freely chosen, is probably a better system than serial monogamy - which is what tends to be practiced by wealthy men in the west. Robert Wright makes the case polygamy was banned in the west as a populist measure to ensure that almost all men could find a wife; which makes for a more stable society. But it actually restricts women's choices and goes against biological evolution. He quotes Gloria Steinem as having said, "I'd rather be Robert Kennedy Jr's second wife than Pee Wee Herman's first." Of course polygamy as actually practiced in cults and Afghanistan tends to be forced on very young girls, and not freely chosen. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
