{"id":17531,"date":"2022-10-30T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/are-we-unfaithful-by-nature-chile\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:43:34","slug":"are-we-unfaithful-by-nature-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/are-we-unfaithful-by-nature-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we unfaithful by nature? – Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If the old adage \u00abonce a cheat, always a cheat\u00bb is true, the findings detailed in David P. Barash’s book Out of Eden could mean that many of us are, well, screwed. <\/p>\n

According to Barash, a psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle<\/strong>the simple truth (and in many ways the \u00abcomplicated\u00bb truth) is that monogamy may be more of a social pressure than a biological inclination.<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n

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\u00abWhen people of any gender act out their polygamous leanings while living in a monogamous tradition, they are cheating on their sociocultural commitment, but not on their biology,\u00bb Barash writes, in an excerpt published in Salon.<\/p>\n

Live Science reports that only between 3 and 5% of mammalian species mate for life.<\/strong><\/span> But Barash said statistics like these aren’t as clear-cut as they seem: Over the years, scientists have determined that there is a crucial difference between social monogamy and sexual monogamy,<\/strong> being the latter much less common<\/strong><\/span>. <\/p>\n

For humans, a move away from monogamy can mean explore other romantic arrangements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While only 15% of Americans ages 18-29 say they would consider a open relationship<\/strong>between 4 and 5% of the US population identifies as polyamorous<\/strong>and many more are experimenting with Nearly endless possibilities for relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barash said the polyandry and polygyny<\/strong> they will be a slippery slope in societies that prize monogamy. But most of us at some point we will meet somewhere between these two poles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00abWe have tendencies in both directions<\/strong>: we want to bond with people, we want to engage and have a sense of security,\u00bb Tao Ruspoli, the documentary filmmaker behind Monogamish, told Mic’s Kate Hakala in 2015. \u00abBut we also have other desires to explore, to have a sense of mystery in our lives, and obviously to keep our sexuality alive. <\/strong>So the question is,how we negotiate all those tensions<\/strong>?\u00bb\n<\/p>\n

So, are we unfaithful by nature or not?<\/h2>\n

Well, we live in a culture where nearly 50% of marriages end in divorce. Many of these couples end due to infidelity. Does it mean that as a society we are not committed to monogamy? Or is it rather because for many, monogamy is something unnatural?\n<\/p>\n

Some assume that it is a symptom of some underlying problem in a marriage or long-term relationship, ignoring a fundamental problem that is if monogamy is compatible with the average person<\/strong>. Also, apparently, we are not very good at choosing our lovers either, since only 10% of these types of relationships last even a month<\/strong>; and the rest lasts, at most a year or two<\/strong>. Very few extramarital relationships last more than 3 or 4 years.\n<\/p>\n

Perhaps, as a response to the constant increase in divorces, which are now sure to increase after we come out of confinement, today there is a new generation of open marriages<\/strong>and willing to experience what is defined as polyamory<\/strong>where the couples choose to define their own structural forms of new monogamy<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

Some couples decide what is traditionally called an \u00abopen relationship\u00bb<\/strong>where sexual fidelity is not required, but the relationship is based on the emotional connection that is what defines the concept of monogamy<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

The positive thing about this questioning is that new questions are being generated that affect the way how do we understand currently<\/span> the concept of monogamy<\/strong> and this should mean an enrichment to our point of view on what means for us a couple relationship<\/strong><\/span> and what we can improve to be happier and feel more complete and free in our relationships.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the old adage \u00abonce a cheat, always a cheat\u00bb is true, the findings detailed in David P. Barash’s book Out of Eden could mean that many of us are, well, screwed. According to Barash, a psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattlethe simple truth (and in many ways the \u00abcomplicated\u00bb truth) is that monogamy may be more of a social pressure than a biological inclination. Related news \u00abWhen people of any gender act out their polygamous leanings while living in a monogamous tradition, they are cheating on their sociocultural commitment, but not on their biology,\u00bb Barash writes,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}