Yes.An age old question: Are humans naturally polyamorous or naturally monogamous? — Benj96
Those basic instinctual tendencies vary as much in nature as they do in humans. Some birds and mammals mate for life; some for the duration of their offspring's dependency, (and some of those still cheat or attempt to cheat) while other couple briefly without forming emotional or obligational bonds. Pack animals tend to be monogamous, or else form family units of a female and her young within a small related community; herd animals generally pool their weaned young in a large community. In these instances, the intimacy of pair-bonding are not factors: sex is an annual necessity; companionship is found with friends.Or have we totally shed the shackles of basic instinctual tendencies through our civilisation and risen to a level of diversity, complexity and individual preference that the question is now redundant? — Benj96
I suspect that, especially duuring peak childbearing life-stages, human males are "naturally polygamous" and human females are "naturally monogamous", yet (modern, more gender-fluid) culture somewhat modifies, or moderates, our "hardwired tendencies".Are humans naturally polyamorous or naturally monogamous? — Benj96
suspect that, especially duuring peak childbearing life-stages, human males are "naturally polygamous" and human females are "naturally monogamous", yet (modern, more gender-fluid) culture somewhat modifies, or moderates, our "hardwired tendencies". — 180 Proof
Are humans naturally polyamorous or naturally monogamous? — Benj96
I'm on the fence myself, — Benj96
Pervert! I hope the fence consented at least! :scream: — unenlightened
An age-old question: Are people naturally polyamorous or naturally monogamous?
Oh my. — fdrake
Men who do not live within the usual sex-limiting social structures can be more promiscuous. For that matter, men and women who do not live within the usual social structures of marriage, mortgages, careers, churches, and so on are perhaps freer to be political outsiders as well. — BC
were you as monogamous as your typical hetero male/female couple — Hanover
My question then is whether actual lesbian behavior is as promiscuous as man on man affection — Hanover
There were about 1.2 million same-sex couple households in the United States in 2021, according to recently released Census Bureau data.
Roughly 710,000 of the same-sex couple households were married and about 500,000 were unmarried.
The lesbians on Grey's Anatomy were certainly quite frisky. — BC
Did legalized marriage change behavior? Perhaps. The broader culture changed as well. — BC
There must be some innate aspect of men -hormonal or otherwise, that means gay guys are less likely to have a strict monogamous lifelong relationship. — Benj96
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