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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Monogamy is largely a Christian thing. The Romans first imposed monogamy in their social construct so men wouldn’t be off looking for more wives and would be at home paying taxes and waiting for war. Christianity turned it into the moral issue it is today. [/quote]

Sure.

I know so many couples at this point who tried "nonmonogamy" with their partners and even though they liked it in theory, as soon as their partners had sex with someone else, they couldn't stomach having sex with them anymore. It was chemical, it was a primal response to nonmonogamy. [/quote]

How do you explain the many non-monogamous cultures in the world, then?  They’re having a “primal response” because decades of culture have told them to. Monogamy is not natural or unnatural, moral or immoral, it’s just culture.

I’m monogamous and happy that way, but I’m not blind that I was taught to be monogamous, not born with some primal monogamous instinct.  [/quote]

Sexual desire, for me, is very one pointed and monogamous.  So at least let's acknowledge that that is true for some people, at a primal level.  And I'm willing to acknowledge that some people don't have that same primal response.  At the cultural level, sure -- culture evens out whatever normal variation there might be and creates a societal standard.  [/quote]

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