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my opinion comes from the fact that, at our cores, we feel most attached to a person when exclusive.
Hey man,
And how did you get to this conclusion exactly? Is it the rising divorce rates? The amount of cheating going on? The amount of money people spend each year on couples therapy, sex toys, role playing costumes, Viagra - trying to "fix" their relationships.
If that was our core - such behaviors were the exception, not the rule.
What about all the biological evidence that the shows exactly the opposite, that we are NON monogamous?
You feel most attached to someone when exclusive because your mind obsess about that one person. I felt the same about my Nikon D90. I loved my camera... now I have a Canon 5D too... mmmm, now my "obsession" about photography is split between two cameras. Big deal. That doesn't show anything man.
But it's no wonder... you've been indoctrinated from a young age to hold this belief.
I copy this from another thread:
How I realized that something is "wrong" with my monogamous POV:
Looking at other girls in the street even that I have "my own girl". Wanting to have sex with other girls. Fighting over shit that doesn't make sense. Having crushes on other girls and having emotions towards a few women in the same time. Wanting to jerk off even after having sex with my partner... and many other things, I can't turn this into a Phd thesis but anyway, nothing matched that picture of "love" that we grow up believing in, a picture which is very romantic and "beautiful".
Then you become older, you start talking with your buddies and it turns out that EVERYBODY is facing with the same problems and issues. Non existing sex lives, dysfunction, unhappiness... then you start reading on the subject of sex / relationships / evolutionary biology and start putting all the pieces together.
Then one day you wake up - oh my god - monogamy and love, and all the constructions around them like LTRs, marriages, sex advise on TV, Disney movies, Romantic songs on the radio, etc etc etc have NOTHING to do with our true nature - we are NON MONOGAMOUS creatures who are indoctrinated to believe that we are monogamous due to social / historical reasons.
Sperm Wars - 90% or 99% of our sperm is designed to attack the sperm of other men and are unable to penetrate the egg.
WHY? What does that mean?
It can only mean that in "nature" women were being sexed by multiple partners in a very short time period and the selection of which sperm will penetrate the egg was made internally in the woman's vagina (based on DNA match and other factors) That is why women can achieve multiple orgasms - they were "designed" to have sex with a few men one after the other. That's why they are also so laud when they orgasm - they are signaling the other men "I'm ready - come over".
How the HELL do you explain Sperm Wars otherwise??? Here - you come with an alternative option... OK?
So if we are "designed" to have multiple partners, for hundreds of thousands of years, and then society comes and about 10,000 (or even much less... maybe 3000?) years ago decides that we should be monogamous (so private property can be accumulated and TAXED, before that everything belonged to everybody in the tribe) - so what do you think this unnatural construction that goes against our biology will result with?
With what?
With EVERYTHING you see around you. High divorce rates, sex crimes, unhappiness, sexual dysfunctions, men cheat on their wives, women cheat on their husbands... swingers, couple swapping... you name it. This explains EVERYTHING.
Sperm wars is just one example - GO READ THE BOOK, I won't argue with anyone who hasn't read the book....
So... in conclusion - what's sad? That everything around us is a lie, that we are being fed a fantasy from a young age, that the "beautiful" ideal of love and relationships we grow on are nothing but a social construction invented for the sole purpose of (drums rolling) - taxing property - MONEY.
If that's not sad I don't know what is.
And then, when you realize all this, you start to ask yourself questions - should I ever get married? Should I even try to be in a LTR? Should I ever start a family? Should I find a bi sexual woman so we can spice up our sex-lives with other partners? Or maybe an open relationship? How would I deal with jealousy? Ployamory?
Or maybe I should REPRESS all this information and LIVE A LIE like the rest of humanity? Find a girl, get married, start a family... then after 2 years we will start to have "problems" like every couple... so we will go to therapy and we will watch porn together, and role play, and do all these silly games to try to make our relationship "work" and better our sex lives. Or we will just stop having sex (the average for married couples is TEN TIMES A YEAR) , and I will cheat on her, or she will cheat on me... like so many other couples... and then I'll be guilty because I'm a good Jewish boy, and I will start hating myself, I will develop cancer.... Or she will catch me, and divorce me, take the kids, the house, the dog...
I honestly can't say I know ANY married couples who are happy. And if there are such couples - they the exception. It's a constant struggle, uphill, against your own nature, for the rest of your life.
No thanks.