Can't_Get_Right
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Monogamy is failing men.
In a famous study a male rat was allowed to mate with a female rat until exhaustion. After some time the male rat lost energy and didn't try to approach the female rat again. However when another female was put in the cage the male rat became instantly sexually active and started mating with the new female. This kept happening as the researchers kept introducing new females.
Studies have shown that males do lose their sexual interest in their women when they get into a long term relationship. This doesn't mean that a man no longer gets attracted to his woman but it's just the fact that lack of novelty lowers male libido and reduces sexual desire.
3 Reasons men aren't meant to be monogamous
In another theory men who are already polygamous, according to the theory, had to become monogamous to prevent other males from killing their offspring. When men mate with more than one woman and have so many children it becomes hard to protect them all and because of that reason men started sticking to one female to easily protect the family.
These statistics are not without logic. Evolutionary psychologist David M Buss, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas and author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, says men are simply wired to seek out as many female partners as possible.
According to Buss, Evolutionary Psychologist, men have “evolved the desire to be with different women” because there is simply no biological barrier in place stopping a man procreating with as many women as possible. Men have limitless sperm compared to the limitations on women and their eggs; men can effectively have back-to-back babies whereas women have to wait nine months in between each birth; men can up and leave, whereas women are in for the long haul.
As a result, men are programmed to expand “their genetic legacy by spreading their cheap seed, while females are inherently made to maximize their investment by being choosy, by securing a male likely to be a good long-term provider".
In a famous study a male rat was allowed to mate with a female rat until exhaustion. After some time the male rat lost energy and didn't try to approach the female rat again. However when another female was put in the cage the male rat became instantly sexually active and started mating with the new female. This kept happening as the researchers kept introducing new females.
Studies have shown that males do lose their sexual interest in their women when they get into a long term relationship. This doesn't mean that a man no longer gets attracted to his woman but it's just the fact that lack of novelty lowers male libido and reduces sexual desire.
3 Reasons men aren't meant to be monogamous
- 1) Love & sexual attraction is almost the same for men
- 2) Men were polygamous throughout history
- 3) Male libido drops when he commits to one woman
In another theory men who are already polygamous, according to the theory, had to become monogamous to prevent other males from killing their offspring. When men mate with more than one woman and have so many children it becomes hard to protect them all and because of that reason men started sticking to one female to easily protect the family.
These statistics are not without logic. Evolutionary psychologist David M Buss, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas and author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, says men are simply wired to seek out as many female partners as possible.
According to Buss, Evolutionary Psychologist, men have “evolved the desire to be with different women” because there is simply no biological barrier in place stopping a man procreating with as many women as possible. Men have limitless sperm compared to the limitations on women and their eggs; men can effectively have back-to-back babies whereas women have to wait nine months in between each birth; men can up and leave, whereas women are in for the long haul.
As a result, men are programmed to expand “their genetic legacy by spreading their cheap seed, while females are inherently made to maximize their investment by being choosy, by securing a male likely to be a good long-term provider".