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Monogamy is a cartel formed by males to reduce male vs. male competition for wives to more of a matter of quality than of quantity.
Polygamy, Jealousy, and Social Peace, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Monogamy is a cartel men impose upon each other to limit competition for wives more to quality rather than to quantity.
Becker on Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Monogamy is the key to a thriving sex life, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study aimed at quantifying the links among income, sex, and general happiness.
Primary Sources 2004
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Monogamy is the key to a thriving sex life, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study aimed at quantifying the links among income, sex, and general happiness.
Primary Sources 2004
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Monogamy is found among birds and mammals: it is just as natural a condition as polygamy or promiscuity or any other form of sex-union; and its permanence and integrity are introduced and increased by the needs of the young and the advantage to the race, just as any other form of reproduction was introduced.
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Monogamy is proven right by social evolution: it is the best way to carry on the human race in social relation; but it is not yet as "natural" as could be desired.
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Monogamy is best for children’s support and growing old.
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Monogamy is about valuing one unique person above all others, to the point that you’re willing to forego all other types of sexual experience that you might have with other partners, and that’s true whether you’re straight, gay or bisexual.
Shorter Mona Charen 2008
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When "Monogamy = Death" was later published in an anthology entitled "Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes" with the more flip, cutsey title "Monogamy Meltdown," and I was part of the "from paper to wood" chapter because I'd only been married four years by then.
Kamy Wicoff: The Moments I Should Have Known Kamy Wicoff 2011
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When "Monogamy = Death" was later published in an anthology entitled "Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes" with the more flip, cutsey title "Monogamy Meltdown," and I was part of the "from paper to wood" chapter because I'd only been married four years by then.
Kamy Wicoff: The Moments I Should Have Known Kamy Wicoff 2011
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