On 16 Apr 2014, at 01:14, [email protected] wrote:
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.
Why, no. They would love that. Look:
http://www.mjemagazine.com/meet-the-woman-who-has-five-husbands-and-they-are-all-brothers/
Bruno
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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
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