More on the myth of monogamy
Was just thinking about this as I woke-up this morning:
Estimates are that about 20% of couples in the United States practice some sort of consensual non-monogamy, whether it be polyamory, swinging, cuckolding, an occasional threesome or just plain having an open-relationship with permission to date and have sex with other people in one manner or another.
It is also estimated that up to 70% of all marriages experience infidelity at some point by one spouse or the other, or both.
If that is truly the case, the simple math is that as many as 90% of all marriages in the U.S. are not monogamous, whether agreed-upon or not, and only around 10% of marriages ever truly remain sexually monogamous.
Given this, what really is the “norm” in relationships and marriages? Monogamy? It sure wouldn’t seem like it.
Related posts:
- Laughing at the hypocrisy
- Pondering the Monogamist Mindset
- Is wanting a threesome grounds for divorce?
Yes, U.S. society needs to quit perpetrating the lie. Those that protest the most about monogamy and being faithful are usually boinking someone besides the person they claim to be monogamous with.
I don’t believe monogamy is the norm and I don’t believe it is an innate human behavior.