Nearly Every Spieces, Cheating Is The Rule- For Both Sexes!

I found this book,"The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People" by David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton (May 2002)
and I'm so liking it!!

But if you read it in public do not be disturbed with people looking you oddly and with disgust. =)
So if you can't deal with that, then read it in solitude
It's the world and the moral rules with humans.. we are supposed to be monogamous even though it goes against our nature. Well here's overwiev of it:

"Applying new research to sex in the animal world, esteemed scientists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton dispel the notion that monogamy comes naturally. In fact, as The Myth of Monogamy reveals, biologists have discovered that for nearly every species, cheating is the rule -- for both sexes.

Reviewing findings from the same DNA fingerprinting science employed in the courtroom, Barash and Lipton take readers from chickadee nests to chimpanzee packs to explain why animals cheat. (Some prostitute themselves for food or protection, while others strive to couple with genetically superior or multiple mates.) The Myth of Monogamy then illuminates the implications of these dramatic new findings for humans, in our relationships, as parents, and more.

The Myth of Monogamy at last brings scientific insight into this emotionally charged aspect of the ultimate dating and marriage quandary."


The book mirrors my thoughts. The book does not tell you not to marry, but it brings out the reality.. If you do get married, don't think that wedding vows will automatically make you and your partner monogamy. it's studiet that monogamous relations are far more the exception than the rule.

David P. Barash and Judith Eve paraphrase the anthropologist Margaret Mead, who once suggested that monogamy is the hardest of all human marital arrangements.


"It is also one of the rarest," they write. "In attempting to maintain a social and sexual bond consisting exclusively of one man and one woman, aspiring monogamists are going against some of the deepest-seated evolutionary inclinations with which biology has endowed most creatures, Homo sapiens included."


Ofcourse they take in the fact that there is difference between humans and animals!!! :D