#monogamy

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#broken #deal #i #infidelity #me

No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how monogamy comes "naturally" to our species. Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers- even presidential legacies- for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature. ↗

— Christopher Ryan

#monogamy #sexuality #death

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection. ↗

— F.H. Bradley

#marriage #monogamy #possession #religion #resurrection

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#marriage #monogamy #marriage

We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,’ and I thought I’d better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn’t belong to, ‘want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that’s what they want. That’s the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.’ ‘Bollocks,’ said Ronnie. ‘That, of course, is the other main difference. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#men #monogamy #sex #women #men

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#genius #like #marriage #monogamy #requires

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. ↗

— Maria Bello

#beauty #change #coaster #constancy #could

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#i #i believe #lot #me #monogamy

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. ↗

— Tom Ford

#comes #i #i do #i think #monogamy

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea. ↗

— Nigel Slater

#food #monogamy #food