Monogamy-by-default sounds like college-by-default. I'm like hey, isn't it weird you enter this life plan that is meant to help but also you're now in a lot of debt... Aren't there actual serious downsides we're sort of pretending are normal? I get that college is helpful, but...
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It might be younger than the existence of institutions of learning, but regular people attending college is an extremely recent phenomenon. Attendance for monogamous sexual culture is much older.
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Are you sure about that? Oxford University is over 1000 years old.
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You are wrong about that. Monogamy as the norm has been in place for centuries. University as a norm for the middle class is a post-WW2 thing. Prior WW2 University education was for wealthy families and a few lucky strivers who could fit the race,sex and social norms of the rich
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I think you are talking about a thing from 1950, tho. Today monogamy is basically a luxury good (and one of the reasons is... college!). Outside the upper middle class, most of marriage (if even there is one) end up in divorce.https://www.forbes.com/sites/caranewlon/2014/06/19/hooking-up-and-marriage-luxury-goods-for-educated-millennials/amp/ …
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