MONOGAMY Let me put it this way: monogamy is not in a man’s interest at all. Or

MONOGAMY

Let me put it this way: monogamy is not in a man’s interest at all. Or rather, it is only in the interest of the 30% of men who are undesirable. And many men are undesirable because men vary more than women, particularly at the extremes.

Monogamy creates artificial scarcity of men. It’s a bad deal for women in gene selection, but it’s a good deal for women in an agrarian economy in terms of support for her offspring. For the upper fifth of men, monogamy is a very high cost of opportunity. For the Tiger Woods’ of the world, its an absurdity.

The question we have to ask, is if we lose the family, and we lose monogamy, then what will a) those undesirable men do and b) how will men start to signal?

I look around the world and I look at history, and this is the stuff that heady murder is made of.