My point of view is similar to this. We really don't get how much of our social behavior is just that, purely situational. When a relatively young person claims that polyamory is "evolutionary," it should be pointed out that "adaptive" would be a better word, and that having a network of friends and lovers is going to…

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True, this is a different conversation from where you started. I just think that the author didn't intend natural evolution to be their point (based on how I read it, nothing more).

The problem with the "evolution" argument is that the honest truth is that we evolved to be exactly the way we are as a population.

Yeah, anytime people point to "how we were always meant to be" I become skeptical. Evolutionary Psychology has been used to justify everything from the fact that only men should sleep around and women should be monogamous to the fact that naturally we should have a matriarchal society because it is far easier to…

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What's the over/under on how long before poly and open relationship type people take their evangelizing door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses?

I dont know how to put my words to not come across as judgemental..ok, maybe since I have an opinion I am judgmental anyway, but then I hope I dont come across too disrespectful. Sometimes it seems to me that our society is getting more and more dehumanized, and as an effect, so become our relationships. I mean I was…

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