It is a new development in most (not all) human societies that people be opposed to physical cheating. Men are more so opposed than women. This is a new development and we’ll explore what caused this change in this thread.
Sexual monogamy is more so pushed in religion for women, men are more permissible to have multiple partners. Evolution has genetic programmed men to impregnate as many women as possible, as it has done to all males in all other species. Even human genitalia is designed in a way to push out another man’s semen from a woman in order to impregnate. We even see it in the way the sperm race to impregnate first.
So what caused monogamy to recently spring up and are people really inherently opposed to it or are they opposed to it because they believe that’s how one should feel, inherently opposed or indoctrinated by the societies they live in. Men are more opposed to physical cheating than women because of the ‘pushing out of one’s essens by another male’ and also because society is more likely to give men permission to have multiple partners than women. Women are more opposed to emotional cheating because if the man cares for the other women outside of just sex, the other woman and her children become competition for the man’s resources.
Why do we continue practicing monogamy when there’s vast evidence that it doesn’t work? Fact: men have a harder time being faithful. Reason: their biological urge to impregnate as many women as possible. Western society’s experimentation with monogamy has all but proven that pushing monogamy on a society is a failure; 50% marriage failure, 78% of married men step out at least once.
Sexual monogamy is more so pushed in religion for women, men are more permissible to have multiple partners. Evolution has genetic programmed men to impregnate as many women as possible, as it has done to all males in all other species. Even human genitalia is designed in a way to push out another man’s semen from a woman in order to impregnate. We even see it in the way the sperm race to impregnate first.
So what caused monogamy to recently spring up and are people really inherently opposed to it or are they opposed to it because they believe that’s how one should feel, inherently opposed or indoctrinated by the societies they live in. Men are more opposed to physical cheating than women because of the ‘pushing out of one’s essens by another male’ and also because society is more likely to give men permission to have multiple partners than women. Women are more opposed to emotional cheating because if the man cares for the other women outside of just sex, the other woman and her children become competition for the man’s resources.
Why do we continue practicing monogamy when there’s vast evidence that it doesn’t work? Fact: men have a harder time being faithful. Reason: their biological urge to impregnate as many women as possible. Western society’s experimentation with monogamy has all but proven that pushing monogamy on a society is a failure; 50% marriage failure, 78% of married men step out at least once.
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These theories are entertaining. I assumed the question was why switch from non-monogamy to monogamy. The most interesting reason for the transition was the rise in STIs from larger population settlements (though it's not really supported).
