Are Humans Monogamous? (repost)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 192 minutes

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Are humans naturally monogamous? What about other primates? What does the data tells us? Dr. Kirk Honda and Humberto discuss the science and the culture.

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0:00.0	So, Burto, I have a question for you.
0:02.2	Are we made for monogamy?
0:04.2	Oh, like you and me?
0:05.9	Well, like humans.
0:06.7	Humans in general.
0:07.7	Humans.
0:08.5	Well, um, I don't, that's a hard question because made is a loaded word. If I take it to mean did we mostly evolve to be monogamous animals?
0:19.2	I would say probably not at the genetic level, but I think our society is evolved in conjunction
0:30.6	with our genetics to a point where monogamy seems to have a lot of advantages for organizational purpose.
0:36.2	Well, so let's investigate it because we've talked about it before in the podcast, but I recently came across some articles actually famous major in Linden-Senden sent some stuff in and I kind of wanted to just do a review of the evidence and just really try to figure out what do we know
0:54.2	about humans what do we know about primates what do we know about our history
1:00.2	and society and the data that we can find in our behavior today and because it's a thing that I think a lot of people struggle with in terms of, you know, aren't we supposed to be monogamous and I just think there's a lot of
1:15.7	questions to be asked and I think there's a lot of benefit to knowing the data
1:20.6	because once we understand the data, then we understand the situation.
1:25.7	I think we can be kind of freed with that knowledge.
1:27.8	You know, like, for people out there, for yourself, how do you feel about monogamy? Think about that. Do you want to be monogamous? Do you like monogamy? Do you value monogamy? How many sexual partners have you had? How many people have you kissed romantically? How many people have you liked romantically? How many people have you fantasized about sexually including porn stars? You know, is it is it one person is it thousands of people. Have you ever
1:55.9	cheated even though you didn't want to hurt your partner? Have you ever thought about cheating
2:00.3	even though you didn't want to hurt your partner. You know, monogamy is clearly the ideal in our society, right?
2:06.0	I mean, how do we know that, Berto?
2:08.0	I think the, starting from religious institution
2:13.2	institutionalization of monogamy.
2:16.0	But when you see it in our literature, in our shows,
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