Phenomenal book and intriguing read!
Phenomenal book and intriguing read!
This book is a great 3 am insomnia read. Researchers make the case for polygamy. They use comparative primate studies and hunter gatherer data to argue that monogamy ISN‘T universal.
Is it so very obvious that you can‘t love more than one person? We seem to manage it with parental love (parents are reproached if they don‘t at least pretend to love all their children equally), love of books, of food, of wine (love of Château Margaux does not preclude love of a fine Hock, and we don‘t feel unfaithful to the red when we dally with the white), love of composers, poets, holiday beaches, friends… Richard Dawkins
A must read for anyone interested in sex. Great read and very funny
Fascinating and clearly well-researched. I enjoyed the way this book challenges notions of modern relationships and monogamy with humor supported by real observations and data.
An excellent piece of trivia.
Also, apparently, “hysteria” was still a real medical diagnosis until 1952. 🤦🏻♀️
I was assigned this book by college professor, and although the chapters are condensed, it is very interesting. I found it enlightening if anything of how much we think we know and that we know nothing.
Ok, so I really enjoyed parts of this book and felt incredibly frustrated at others. It's very clear that this book was written with monogamous straight people in mind, and frankly that's just disappointing. I absolutely hated some of the rhetorical moves towards the end, but I found the overall point about evolutionary history compelling. Someone needs to write a queer version of this book and call it a day.
There is a non-monogamy book on audible, so of course I had to try it out. So far it reads like a massive complaint against the prevailing assumptions in evolutionary psychology. What I like most (so far) is how the authors confront the lack of historical and social sensitivity that has mostly informed scholarship on the evolution of human sexuality.
A must read. Most of us live in an unrealistic world, unfortunately. Even though this book makes sense, society is far from achieving anything like this.