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Are human beings, by nature, monogamous?

6 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube dialogue, Speaker A raises concerns about the practical and health risks of engaging in threesomes, questioning how threatening such non‑monogamous activities might be to a primary relationship. Speaker B acknowledges the difficulty of confronting non‑monogamy within a culture that still upholds monogamy as the norm, noting that many people fantasize about alternatives. B suggests that these fantasies may hint at an underlying psychological need for something beyond strict monogamy, implying a possible innate drive toward more varied relational structures.

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going off and having threesomes with a couple is what they want to do, and you don't want to do that in your own relationship. How threatening is that? Beyond STDs, obviously you don't want to get— you don't want to catch something from somebody doing that. But I don't know. I know that people find all of this very challenging.
Yeah, yeah, it is challenging. Very challenging. Yeah, because, you know, there are— our culture and society is, is based still upon monogamy. Exactly. And anything that challenges that is, is difficult to deal with, you know. It's, it is difficult to deal with. Yeah. And, um, but, you know, but a lot of people fantasize about it. Yeah. Therefore, it must mean that somewhere in the human psyche there is this need for something more than just the monogamous, uh, relationship.