anon_mwja received

in thread "A Sexual Counter-Revolution?":

Lifelong monogamous marriage does not make sense in the world where the average age of first marriage for women is 32 and the social expectation is that everybody has 15 years of sterile sexual experimentation interspersed with not so emotionally sterile "... 26h ago received

Lifelong monogamous received

It works for a few people who get lucky with the right partner or shut off their minds to the material realities of the contract. Most people in the circles OP is talking about know deep down that it's a bad deal. This is what I mean by "doesn't make sense... 8h ago received

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Yes it works for some people under very specific circumstances. I don't know why you believe it's the only thing that can work. Even while marriage and children is still normative, we have some cases of people opting out of this and succeeding. Trump and E... 7h ago received

Yes it works for som received

Humans have strong inclinations and there are indeed stable equilibria. You've suggested that these two facts alone should let you conclude that lifelong monogamous marriage is the obviously correct family lifestyle. Yet, LMM is dying and in some subcultur... 1h ago received

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