Thank you for the supply of information. I appreciate it. I have a degree in Psychology and have read many books on sexuality because I took the wife to counceling and the therapist asked that we read more about the subject. Humans are definitely not monogamous creatures. In fact, the biological drive to make as many offspring as possible is greater than the drive for fidelity. However, I believe the institution of marriage was created to protect the females and to support the theory that females need to pick the males that will provide the best offspring. That theory has two flaws. 1. No one was thinking that females might actually be enjoying the act. 2. No one was taking in to consideration the fact that men have a subliminal drive to produce many offspring and furthermore they don't take in to consideration that sex is for pleasure and not only to reproduce. Society has taught women to not only just have sex for reproduction only, but in fact teaches them not to like it to the point where they just aren't there for the males in marriage at all. If you look at suggestions for polygamy, rarely will you see a case where a woman wants to have more than one husband. It is usually a case where the males want more than one wife. Providers satisfy a need in society. When you look at provider complaints and one is that he 'used the toilet' and another is that he 'passed gas' it is a sign that there is more in play. Maybe, as your post indicates humans are not meant to mate for life, but the institution of marriage is deep and well protected. I believe it is so to protect females. If you want to see which marriages are doing extremely well, you need to just ask is the sex there and is it frequent and enjoyable. If after seven years, it is waning, then someone, just because it is biological, will seeks satisfaction elsewhere. I think the articles you have posted indicate well that true monogamy is rare amongst animals and that (holy smoke) women are involved too! Funny, sex has been going on for thousands of years but only in the last couple hundred have we discovered and publicisced that females can like it too! Thanks for reading my thread
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