[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 59

[Luke Weiger]

Yoshie wrote, "Few people have practiced monogamy except when they have been
forced to do so, and even then they have flouted the law or custom, even at
the potential cost of grave penalties.  It's human nature to be a bit nutty
and a bit slutty, to use David Brock's infamous phrase against the grain.
Lust doesn't last.  It's monogamy that needs explaining, if anything."

Many people across practically every known culture have practiced monogamy.
Many people across practically every known culture have engaged in
promiscuity and/or infidelity.  The conflicting tendencies to stay and stray
are strong within most of us (again, across virtually all known cultures).
This is why sex, romance, and love give rise to vast amounts of, well,
conflict--or did you think the messiness of sexual relations was unique to
Western culture?

-- Luke