The Rise Of Consensual Non-Monogamy
FHM Australia|March 2020
It’s an age-old debate… should we be monogamous? Couples, friends, peers and so on have debated this question for many years and people hold differing views on the answer and the reasons.
Catriona Boffard
The Rise Of Consensual Non-Monogamy

If we take an evolutionary approach to understand this question, the answer is actually no. We’re not supposed to be monogamous. We needed to focus on the survival of the species (that’s us humans) and survival of the fittest. That meant cisgender men reproducing with cis-gender women, not because of a relationship and commitment to be ‘exclusive’ and ‘til death do us part’, but purely to ensure that the human race kept going. But, from a social perspective, over time most societies around the world adopted monogamy. Most people ‘approve of’ only two people in a relationship, and disapprove of stepping outside of that ‘norm’. Even though there are still numerous cultures around the world that do not believe in monogamy, monogamy has become the ‘gold standard’ for relationships.

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