Sublime

Polygynous marriage creates a pool of low-status unmarried men.

According to research led by Yale psychologist Margaret Clark, most people act like givers in close relationships. In marriages and friendships, we contribute whenever we can without keeping score.

In terms of desire, research disproportionately reduces cis men’s sexuality to testosterone and erections—decreasing their role in sex to little more than coin-operated sex machines.

It’s a biological fact: men are more easily overwhelmed by marital conflict…

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She writes, “It’s been my experience that couples who negotiate sexual boundaries…are no less committed than those who keep the gates closed. In fact, it is their desire to make the relationship stronger that leads them to explore other models of long-term love.”18

If you want to know how safe someone is, ask yourself: Is this person with me for him—or for us?

However, many studies have found that supposed gender differences in areas such as level of sexual desire, frequency of masturbation, frequency of fantasies and frequency of “one-night stands” are inconsistent at best (Peterson & Hyde, 2010).

how monogamous norms suppress testosterone at a societal level.

Alfred Kinsey’s study on human sexuality.