The Evolutionary Case Against Monogamy, Ctd

by Chris Bodenner

A reader writes:

I came of age in an era when, as a friend put it, "everyone was supposed to sleep with everyone, and did."  (The infamous "sixties," though for me it was offset into the seventies.) In the midst of all that pressure, ignorance, and confusion, I fell into a long-term relationship that we (a young man and I) defined as "open."  We also defined me as being immature, ignoble, and unpleasant for being jealous and possessive.  There were a couple of decades where I...