One of the basic assumptions of Western culture is that monogamy is superior to polygamy and polyamory as a relationship form. A recent article by psychologists at the University of Michigan found no evidence for these assumptions. The article “A Critical Examination of Popular Assumptions about the Benefits and Outcomes of Monogamous Relationships” concludes from …read more
When a book like Sex at Dawn 1 by Christopher Ryan (PhD) and his wife Cacilda Jethá (MD), becomes a New York Times bestseller, gets praised as “most important book about human sexuality since Kinsey” and is showered with awards around the world, that is already some indication that it might be worth reading. If …read more
Just now, on the way home, suddenly a woman, a complete stranger, approached me and said, “I think it’s very good what you are doing.” She had seen my appearance on TV at Roche and Böhmermann and read some articles on my website. In our subsequent short conversation, she told me that she was studying …read more
All my theses on polygamy and monogamy in the german version on Viktor Leberecht.de were revised and updated Sunday, October 14th 2012. I added explanations and links to articles that support my theses. That is why last sunday you were bombarded on my Facebookaccount and Twitteraccount with lots of posts in german. Doing this quite …read more
Recently i was asked on a discussion-forum if Polygamy in the form of Polygyny would not lead to few rich or attractive men taking a lot of the women and the rest of the men being left without women. There is even something like a legend that it would lead to the single men forming …read more
An excellent brief overview of the emergence of the monogamy fairytale Idylls of lifelong loyalty from the Guardian. A paragraph from it is so good that I quote it here because it exposes the lie of traditional marriage being all about love and mnogamy: “People only started to marry for love in the late 18th …read more
Marriage and divorce statistics in the U.S. show declining chances for monogamy, same as in my homecountry germany and most countries, where people have the right to divorce. The article “Statistics Show the Sinking Realities for Marriage” can be found in http://www.theledger.com/article/20120819/NEWS/120819303/1410?Title=Statistics-Show-the-Sinking-Realities-for-Marriage- Notice: This article is translated – and some contents might have been added …read more
