Our Monogamification
Ancestral hominin monogamy may have resulted in our extinction. So why is there currently so much moral value and emphasis placed on monogamy?
One person. That’s it. Just the One. Monogamy is defined as being married to/having sex with only one person at a time. Scientists posit that human evolution toward monogamistic tendencies was developed in order to ensure the procreation of lower-level males in a primitive hierarchical system. While monogamy has been maintained as the socially accepted norm, why do so many people fail at it?
Some humans are wired to be sexually greedy (except for some: I see you, my acey babes) and those greedy of us who operate as such have to work at monogamy. I strive to understand the practicality of a social construct that entails spending the rest of one’s sexual life with only one person. Scientists have classified three types of monogamy: social, sexual, and genetic; and some of us already know that we have no business attempting any or all of the above.
Humans, like most earthly organisms, are fueled by biological imperatives. Eating, drinking, sleeping, and sexing are the survival mechanisms our ancestors excelled at, and that is why we’re lucky enough to be here. I wouldn’t be writing this if even one of my predecessors had…
