Is monogamy good for society? | Louise Perry

I consider myself polyamorous, and it is not for the faint-hearted I tell you. You need to have a lot of self-love first and foremost. Then it's all about communication. Yes, there is jealousy. But the point is that you should acknowledge the feeling and ask yourself why you feel this way. Mostly it's because there is a need that isn't met. Try to communicate your needs.

I think the video should be more clear in what it is comparing, because it seems to be studying monogamy in comparisson to sexist polygamy, but inside of today's modern debate, it suggests to be about polyamory, which is far different. Although, whatever it is the case; it's a fallacy claiming that monogamy makes societies "more stable, peaceful and prosperous", beyond the absence of data, because of the fact that she pretends to prove it by comparing "families" instead of societies which are the case of study (???). And also, if she was just stating a supposed fact about these two types of societies, I think it's lacking some critical thinking, in the sense that if we look at all the factors, the more "stable, peaceful and prosperous" societies are not coincidentally all capitalists global potencies, without forgeting that capitalism rests in the system of monogamy.

The title suggests an unbiased approach to this question, probably to make it appear that this channel or the presenter of this question is a unbiased scientist.
However, an unbiased presentations would have consisted in both highlighting the pro's and con's of both practices.

Luckily the channel shows less pretension in the comment section, based on which comments it likes by unanimously favouring the monogamy stance.

If we were meant to be polygamist then oxytocin levels would rise when we sleep with multiple people, not lower the way that they do.

Monogamy means that weak men get to spread their bad genes and the human species gets weaker and more domesticated as a result. It may even be the reason why civilizations tend to collapse over time.

This video was informative, but I cannot ignore that it seems to have multiple loopholes

For example, why are you arguing about polygamy (multiple marriages) in the first place if the examples given are mostly related to sexuality and romantic atraction? It would be more accurate to just refer to polylove, in which polygamy is included.

Also, why has poligamy only been defined as: a situation in which a man has multiple wifes?
There are many other sistems of poligamy such as only women having multiple marital partners, each individual having multiple marital relations divided hierarchicaly in intimacy and proximity or even groups in which every person included has a marital relation with each one of the other members of the group. And yes, such does not exclude having multiple partners with different gender orientations, that's part of the human sexual and marital experience, there's no way to deny it.

But the thing that caused me more confusion was when the argument "monogamy is objectively better as it contribues for stability and prosperity in society" was supported with the premisse "many societies in which polygamy is generally practiced are also more unstable and poor". 1- correlation doesn't mean causation, you need to develop a better explanation to support the cause-effect relation you hypothesized, not simply imply it; 2- you shouldn't be so vage with such bold statement, please mention specific examples to support your arguments, otherwise you leave your audience to feel in the blanks with their own preconceptions.

There are many other things that I personally didn't find quite right but I will not microanalyse more than I have already done.

Please note that it's not my intention neither to insult you, nor your audience, nor your work. I'm just pointing out my perspective on this video since I felt quite invested in it. It was interesting and tought-provoking, to the point that I'm now rumbling about it in a Youtube comment section.

Thanks for reading this far 🙂

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IDK if monogamy is good for society or not but in modern day , monogamy is a blessed for men.
Image how much a divorce cost and image that you have a few wife , just think about it make me scary. And image that a woman have a few husbands to divorce each time she run out of cash , so scary.
With monogamy , a man can only divorce once , and if you are stupid enough for the next time then you are no save.
Jesus bless us with monogamy , praise the Jesus who savior of men.

wrong wrong wrong.

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Sumerians

Ancient Egyptians

Indus Valley Civilization

Ancient Greeks

Roman Empire

Chinese Civilization

Islamic Caliphates

Maya Civilization

Inca Empire

Mongol Empire

all of these most known human civilisations, monogamy was the PREDOMINANT So cut the brainwashing bullshit.

polygamous relationships existed only in ruling and wealthy class and it's modern bullshit. Thank god I always suspected this and felt this was the right way, the biology in me always knew it was wrong if my girl let's say wanted to have more men. (didn't happen)

Incredibly disappointed how this video starts off by defining monogamy and polyamory and then carries on arguing that polygyny is bad. Which has literally nothing to do with modern polyamory.

I think Bing think is religiously sponsered. Not only because of this video. Recently they have submitted some dogmas too..😮😮

I thought there were a lot of celebrated patriarchs in the bible who were polygynous? Unless Jesus specified 1 man and 1 wife monogamy shouldn't actually be considered a fundamentally Christian value but rather a cultural add on.

Very misleading. And intentionally so.

If we're asking this question then let's just go back to being cavemen living in caves, fighting lions and hunting for our food with sticks and spears

Polygyny is natural and eugenic.
However, if polyamery becomes the norm in a population mutational meltdown isn't far behind, that is if it doesn't get wiped out by a polygynous population beforehand.

Y'all just jealous LOL. Why do you believe you are less loved if your loved one also loves othrr people? Thats what you should ask yourselfs.
Spread love, fuck society.

Of course monogamy is good
It’s the only good one nowadays