for over 1,800 years of Western civilization, much of the world has been trying to come to grips with the central paradox of love—how it can coexist with infidelity. At first, sexual pleasure was suspect, often sinful, at the very least frowned upon, even in marriage. During the past hundred years or so, sexual bliss has become one of the main objects of marriage. And yet, regardless of how society has viewed marital sexual relations, both men and women still had sex outside marriage, and outside every other type of supposedly sexually monogamous relationship. This is because infidelity isn’t
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