Monogamy Not Natural?

The Sydney Morning Herald just published a great article titled We’re just swingers after all that discusses the positions held in the new book, Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha. Sex At Dawn uses information from anthropology, archeology, anatomy and primatology to put forth the case that monogamy isn’t necessarily natural for our species and is a relatively recent phenomenon when it comes to human history. Ryan and Jetha also contend that a culture that holds up monogamy as the default standard may suffer some serious negative ramifications by doing so. For the non-monogamous among us as well as those that wish to better understand them, this article is worth checking out.