It's evolutionary, which doesn't mean it's good. Before birth control, if a woman cheated, her man might end up raising another man's child. Women face different risks, like abandonment while pregnant or with kids. This is why male and female jealousy is so different. https://twitter.com/R2daOH/status/963115716361601025 …
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How did come to the conclusion that “polyamory” generally reduces sexual jealousy? This isn’t what I hear from members of of the poly community, who spend far more time on communication to reduce the likelihood of jealousy.
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Open relationships build jealousy-management skills in a way that monogamy doesn't. This is a complicated issue, and there's not much good research on it yet. What there is, I reviewed in my recent class on poly: https://www.primalpoly.com/s/syllabus-draft-june11.docx …
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Radical cultural innovations such as increasing polyamory should be treated with the precautionary principle just like GMOs. We're not the final state of humankind (not the end of history), we want to progress forward, but we need to give evolution the respect it's due.
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I agree that caution is warranted, but in some ways, poly/open relationships are more similar to ancestral mating patterns with fluid, informal pair-bonds than lifelong monogamous marriage is. And different people are suited to different relationship structures.
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"Hey, we could use cultural innovations to minimize the harmful effects of sexual jealousy!" That would be awesome, but I won't hold my breath. bet there are clear evolutionarily explained tradeoff adjudication predictors of accepting your partner's prolificacy
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What about the Darwinian-Pair-Bonding-Party ?!?
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