True Love: Is Monogamy Unnatural?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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[REBROADCAST] Are humans built for monogamy? Or is the idea of having one partner forever just a myth forced on us by tired old love songs? We revisit the science of love in one of our favorite episodes, hearing from Dr. Helen Fisher, Professor Larry Young and Dr. Dieter Lukas. Find the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3meWcuN This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman with Heather Rogers, Kaitlyn Sawrey, Ben Kuebrich, Shruti Ravindran and Rose Reid. Editing by Annie Rose Strasser and Blythe Terrell. Extra editorial help from Alex Blumberg. Production assistance from Stevie Lane. Fact checking by Ben Kuebrich, Taylor White and Rose Rimler. Music production and original music written by Bobby Lord. Special thanks to Joseph Lavelle Wilson, Austin Mitchell and to Professor Karen L Kramer, Professor Garth Fletcher, Dr. Alexander G. Ophir, Professor David Barash, and Richard Bethlehem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.
0:03.6	This is the show that pits facts against fairy tales.
0:08.8	Today on the show, True Love.
0:16.4	But we're really supposed to be monogamous for life
0:20.0	to find that one true love to spend the rest of our lives with.
0:24.6	So at this moment right now on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you guys love each other?
0:29.1	About 10. Oh yeah? Yeah, I'm not going to say 10.
0:33.1	About 10. I was going to say 95, but I think it's 10.
0:39.4	This is Gail and Matt Reign.
0:41.0	They've been a couple for almost 50 years.
0:44.5	They met at college and still remember those first moments when they got together.
0:48.9	I remember that we were walking in the rain in the field behind where the chapels were.
0:55.4	And he went up to the, it was like a podium outside.
1:02.2	And so I stood up at the lecture and I began to recite something from the beginning of one of the doors albums.
1:12.3	But the wonderful thing was she didn't know I was quoting an album.
1:15.4	So she thought I was being original, which is really fabulous. Tell it, brother.
1:20.2	When I was back in seminary school, a fellow put forth the proposition
1:26.7	that you can petition the Lord with prayer.
1:31.5	Petition the Lord with prayer.
1:36.1	You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.
1:42.7	Sorry, I must have been flirting. Probably so.
1:46.9	Gail and Matt believe that true love is possible.
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