Do u think that human beings are meant to be monogamous?

Question

and why?

Answer 1

i dont understand what your trying to say? sorry, can you be specific?  

Answer 2

No. Men are meant to spread it around. There are more girls than boys born every year. If men were monogamous then a lot of women would get left out.

Answer 3

I don`t think they were meant to be.

Remember, at the start, there must have been very few people in the world.....and of course `marriage` and `romantic love`  as such hadn`t been thought of or invented.

So do you think `cave man` was monogamous, when he could have any female he wanted .

For hundreds of years, s*x would have been wild and free.

Answer 4

I'd like to think so but there's evidence to the contrary.  I suppose all that matters is that my fella & I are monogamous, not wishing to sound selfish.

Answer 5

I can only speak for myself and I know that I am.

Answer 6

i say no since im bisexual.  

Answer 7

"Meant to be"? Who means it? Most people believe that we're supposed to be this way, but there's no good reason for it, really. Back in the day when survival was paramount, I think there would have been very sound arguments against both promiscuity *and* homosexuality - the need to breed more and to ensure the survival of the young -  but it's not like the human race is in danger of dying out anymore.

For us to be "meant" to be anything requires a higher power. So unless you believe in God, you ought to recognize that we make our own meaning.

Answer 8

Gut reaction?

Yes.

My view is that humanity as a species was meant to exist as a social mix of different individuals interacting and trying to react until after as much or little exploration as chance requires, the individuals manage to find someone who exemplifies  the qualities they want in a mate.

My view is that love, lifelong love, romantic and passionate love... that state of being is more than an emotion. Emotions pass... but that kind of love becomes a spiritual mark that, when nurtured, grows over the remainder of the lifetime. It's something that I think requires so much investment and so much effort that establishing it with more than one person would only undermine the individual's identity and ability to love.  

The Greeks described different kinds of love with different words... they recognized them as distinct and separate emotions. This means that the chief justification of most people who claim the truth of polyamory (that one can love both brother and father, so why not love multiple boyfriends) is founded on a flaw within our own language... if the Greek perspective is right, and one can love different people differently, then those different loves by needs must abide by different rules and conventions.  

Answer 9

I believe that we should be monogamous. But we're not. A lot of people cheat, get divorced, have s*x with more than one person in their lifetime, etc etc. But who knows, there's people in open relationships or they're swingers and they're happy that way. I guess it's different for everybody.  

Answer 10

I would like to think so! I know that I am monogamous with whomever I am in a relationship. Although I cannot say the same for all of the losers that I seem to have a knack for attracting.

Answer 11

yes, in simple terms so the man can stay and protect his babies.  

Answer 12

If we were would there be a 54% failure rate of marriages?  Only artificial constraints: society's views, religion, and the law have kept marriage alive all these years.  

Answer 13

it all depends on the person.

sum ppl are flexible, they can go either way.

sum ppl feel the need to have more than one person.

others r perfectly find with being with just one person.

Answer 14

Nope, we are definately not monogamous. Thus sayeth the scientific method. The behaviour of human beings is quite incongruent with the scientific description of a "monogamous animal". We are more polygynous than anything, but us g**s are doing are darnedest to up the polyandrous qoutient.

Answer 15

My answer to you is yes. Human beings function best when they are in a committed relationship and in love. I sat down and asked Mother Nature in an interview a couple weeks back and here is what she said.

Paranormal Hamburger: Hi, Mother, glad you could join us.

Mother Nature: It's good to be here.

Paranormal Hamburger: I have a question as do some of our viewers and it has to do with monogamy are you for it or against it?

Mother Nature: I'm for it. I designed humans to be monogamous. I look around me these days and I see people bumping uglies with everyone within their field of vision and this pisses me off.

Paranormal Hamburger: What do you intend to do about it?

Mother Nature: I will totally wipe them off the map. I will plague them with diseases and financial ruin until they stop this behavior. I'm also considering increasing the cost of medical treatment. You know, if they can't afford it then maybe they will stop. They'd rather purchase a Latte than a bottle of unattractive pills that clashes with their decor.

Paranormal Hamburger: I see, so what are the benefits of being monogamous?

Mother Nature: Lower health care cost. They will also remain attractive and youthful much longer. I think they will be better off morally too and there will be less drama. If people would just partner up, fall in love and spend more time bettering their communities instead of opening up another hook up website, building more Starbucks and spreading STD's we'd all be a lot better off. Instead of making a bigger grave yard filled with morons who go from pillar to post like a sidewalk host we could do more for the environment which pisses me off as well.

Paranormal Hamburger: I see, well thanks for stopping by. As always it's been a pleasure. Oh by the way. The hurricane that jacked up my beach house on Santa Rosa Island. What was that about?

Mother Nature: Uh, your neighbor pissed me off and hurricanes lack surgical precision. Sorry about that. I'll make your Azaleas bloom more this year.

Paranormal Hamburger: Well, I rebuilt and sold it. But please drop by my mountain estate and make certain the bears stay in the woods.

Mother Nature: I'll do that. Again, sorry about the beach house.

All my answers are fat free, cholesterol free, sugar free and have no calories. Now caffeine free. ©2008 Paranormal Hamburger (Humor) All Rights Reserved. My answers are made from 100% recycled materials. Think Green, Answer Green.  

Answer 16

I think human beings are meant to be whatever the **** they want to be and no one is exactly the same. So that can't really be answered in my opinion.

Answer 17

When you're in love with someone, and for the purpose of begetting and/or raising children, yes.  And some sincere people--I'd say 25% of married people--seem to take to it like ducks to water, and never think twice about it.  The rest of us--well, like the old jingle goes:

Higamous hogamous,

Women are monogamous.

Hogamous higamous,

Men are polygamous.

Answer 18

It is certainly highly unlikely.  There is no evidence that the human race was historically monogamous prior to the emergence of property rights and inheritance, which came recently in the evolutionary terms (6,000 years or so).  While some of the other Great Apes (we are technically a species of Great Ape) are monogamous -- well -- sort of -- the males keep Harems which are not shared; others, including our nearest relatives, are totally promiscuous.  It seems likely that our nature historically, say 10,000 years ago -- would have been serially monogamous with some exceptions -- another words, a male and female would mate, breed, and then eventually separate to recouple with others.

Monogamy as we know it was instituted by a number of early agricultural age religions, in order to guarantee property inheritance -- however, even there, generally it was a harem setup -- until... probably... some time around 600 BC.  Modern monogamy emerged, most likely, in that timeline.  

Kind thoughts,

Hermes